WordPress Magnet
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Steven Schwartzman launches WordPress Magnet, a $40 WordPress plugin designed to hopefully increase the number of comments posted in your blog. The reasoning behind this is more comments in your site will attract even more traffic. It turns into some kind of viral marketing tactic, because as more people leave a comment in your site, a whole lot more visitors will join in on the fun.
But does this really work? Or is WordPress Magnet just another scam aimed at selling you the dream of higher web traffic?
Consider the following…
1. WordPress Magnet is a plugin that rewards people for leaving a comment in your blog.
Some folks may call this an ethical bribe of sorts. If your visitor leaves one comment, the plugin will automatically let them know how they can get their gift (i.e., free download of a special report). If your visitor leaves another comment, they then get Gift #2, and so on until as many as 5 gifts.
While the WordPress Magnet plugin can handle this for you automatically, please ask yourself if you want your blog filled with comments made by people who were mainly just after the comment rewards, gifts or incentives.
(The last time I offered some kind of reward for people who leave comments, I ended up deleting a lot of “just for the sake of leaving a comment” comments. What a waste of time!)
2. Are you willing to pay $40 for a WordPress plugin?
That’s the initial price. If you don’t want to plunk down any dollars, then try the Comment Relish WordPress plugin (by Justin Shattuck), which is designed “to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before.”
That email can contain the link to the downloadable report or gift that you want to send to your blog’s First-Time commenters.
That’s right — there’s no 5-Gifts-for-5-Comments feature, but at least you can test this whole concept of Incentivized or Reward Commenting for free before you invest your money in a non-free plugin.
3. Is Steven Schwartzman using his own plugin?
I found cached copies of some pages of Steven’s blog where the comment area has this line: “Post a comment and receive a special prize!”
When I read the current (not cached) copy, I no longer see that line. It makes me wonder, though, why it looks like his WordPress Magnet plugin is not seen on his blog.
Afterall, a blog that gets less than 5 comments per post, which later experiences 10+ comments per post after installing the plugin will make a compelling and convincing case study, right?
My recommendation: Try the Comment Relish plugin first for free. If you do experience a boost in your blog comments, and if that results in more web traffic that leads to sales (or the attainment of your site’s objectives), then try the $40 WordPress Magnet plugin.
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"WordPress Magnet"
First Posted: June 15, 2008 | Filed in: Web Traffic
Hey Manual,
Thanks for blogging about WordPress Magnet. Looks like an honest review and a well written post…
To clarify I was using it on my personal blog but people kept trying to steal the plugin by guessing where the download link was on my server, trying to download the file, etc…it was just just simpler not to use it on that blog during the launch.
Regards,
Steven Schwartzman
Creator of WordPress Magnet
Thanks, Steven! I look forward to reading the success stories of those who are using your plugin.
The plugin is a great idea and just the thing I could use but….
I purchased WP Magnet a few days ago and have been trying to get it to function properly, in other owrds as described in the video. Anyone else having this problem? Although I am able to edit various fields, none except the email “comment text” actually stay as “saved settings”. The remaining fields such as the email subject line and the actual email template do not stay as “saved”. I’ve sent test comments…with no visible settings. So technically, I can receive a message after submitting a comment but nothing else is visible…the email body says “email template #1″ and the email subject is “subject”.
Strangely enough it does retain my clickbank ID and the actual email from address.
More disappointing is that I am not getting any response from either the Warrior Forum where I posted a request for information or the actual “Help Desk” at WP Magnet.
Any suggestions?
Sounds like your webserver requires certain “write privileges” or permissions so that the settings you made will be saved. May I know where you are hosting your website?
Hey thanks for the info about the plugin
gonna give the free one a try… sounds pretty good
i also see how that can increase web traffic to your site.
well the wordpress really sounds great . it would be cool to see it working for someone and how do people actually react to this. I believe that by creating such a wordpress plugin people might really want to write comments just for the sake of writing it and maybe after getting the prize they wont want to read or comment on your blog anymore.
I used to giveaway free links to top commentors of the month.. it really did work out for the first few weeks as I noticed a 300% increase in visitors and about 500% increase in comments .. but it only lasted so long and I took it off once I noticed there is a lot of rubbish comments..
There is also such a thing called TipMe for every person who wants to have their links on a website or blog. This has higher votes on my side as a way to get people to have their links on my site but at the same time people dont want to pay for it. And you only get paid after like you earn USD 100 and above.
If there could only be a reverse plugin for this. Tipping the highest commentor with most relevant comments. People would have to register for it. That would be a great plugin.
I’d like to see a site that has the “magnet” plugin activated. I do like “Gadgets” suggestion regarding the reverse plugin.
I’ve seen WordPress Magnet in the following sites: miekejanssens.com, doodlemyshoes.com, and onlinemoneycoaching.com