3rd Party Commenting System for Wordpress Blog

[gurrambharath]

I'll be starting a new blog within a week, for that i'm thinking to implement a 3rd party comment system instead of default wordpress comment system. I'm thinking of Livefyre or Facebook Comment System. Mostly my heart is saying to go for Livefyre.

I'm in such a niche where i need more likes and sharing, so do you advice me to got for Facebook Commenting System.

What do you guys suggest and recommend. which is better? Pls do advice, thanks

[gurrambharath]

Thank You Marie Haynes for the answer.

I too heard of Google Commenting System, But is it worth waiting till they release it? Should i go with the default wordpress commenting system till then?

Facebook Comments are now indexable. So isn't that a good option to go for it. I do agree that it's very difficult to moderate Facebook comments. But I think facebook commenting system will generate us tons of traffic, isn't that worth going for this?

Also, Can we use both facebook and default comment system in blog? If so How? How can we integrate both? Please do refer me to some useful articles on achieving this.

[MarieHaynes]

I'm a fan of disqus because even though it is a third party commenting system, the comments are still stored on your wordpress databases.  So, if something were to happen to the company you wouldn't lose your comments.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I found with Facebook comments that I couldn't figure out how to moderate them.

I've heard rumors that google is going to come out with a third party commenting system of their own, so I haven't been too quick to change to anything until that happens.  It's debatable whether disqus comments are SEO friendly.  (I think they have a new upgrade that is crawlable though).  But you know that google comments will definitely be able to be crawled!

[BenFox]

If I had the choice I'd go for Facebook Comments purely for the the social sharing.