Third party Comment plugins for blogger

Blogger blog is one of the popular blogging platform. There are hundreds of blogs that are created each and every day. Now a days people are searching for tools for making blogging easy and engaging to readers. One of the new trend is to encourage visitors to comment on their blog. There are many Tools and plugins for doing it on blogger. Here I am 'disqussing' some of the Third party plugins  and widgets for blogger comments.

The default commenting system on blogger is not that bad. But the style and functionality seems outdated. The third party comment plugins and widgets have more exiting features such as social commenting, sharing, mobile friendly, seo, notifications via email, cool interface, threaded comments, profiles and various other features that promote engagement of visitors and comment and share on the topic which will bring more traffic. Some of the top third party plugins for comments are below.

1. Disqus

Disqus is one of the widely used commenting system for websites. The basic version includes most of the features that you want. Many Internet giants use disqus commenting. The premium version of disqus have more customizable designs and other features.This can be easily integrated with blogger blogs through the simple steps

Features

• Threaded commenting, reply to comments
• Fully moderate comments
• Powerful Spam control
• Comment using social profiles including facebook, twitter, google, open id and more.
• Comment as gust, create disqus profile when commenting,
• Flag inappropriate comments
• Leave video, picture response
• Add star to topics 
• Vote up/downfor comments
• Recent activity
• Social sharing comments         

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2.Intense debate

Intense debate is another popular commenting system plugin for blogger and other cms. Intense Debate's comment system enhances and encourages conversation on blog. The wordpress evolved intense debate is a feature rich commenting plugin. the features include:

Features

• Social login for commenting
• Complete moderation
• Enable comment luv
• displays your image on several weblogs
• Less loading Time
• Spam filter
• Block user comments
• Easy installation
• Sharing, email notification and more.     
   

3. Livefyre

Livefyre commenting system has a good platform for social engagement. But for integrating with blogger blog require simple coding to paste on blogger template. It has no direct plugins for blogger.

Features

• SocialSync
• Social Sign In
• Friend Tagging
• Comment Sharing
• Comment Liking
• Rich Text Editor
• LinkBack
• Live Listeners
• Comment Notifiers
• Media Embedding
• Comment Editing
• User Profiles

4.Echo

Echo a comment platform with a strong focus on real-time engagements,
meet ups. It is a premium service with all Premium features.  It is a part of Echo social apps.

Features

• Mobile friendly
• More social engaging
• It links to all social accounts
• Fast loading
• Notification of comments
• Reply to users
• Add media
• Follow users

5.Facebook Comments plugin

The official Facebook comments is fully integrated with facebook. This plug-in allows the users to comment using Facebook account. It is more similar to the default commenting system on Facebook. The comments made by the users on your site will be published in user's Facebook account and their friends will be notified. Users ca send messages to others.

Features

• Comment with Facebook account
• Comment directly linked to Facebook profile
• Report comments
• Message to users
• Notifications on facebook and via email
• Fastloading