A Minor Tweak for the Top Commentators Plugin

According to John Chow’s blog, a poll with a topic ‘Why do you comment on a blog?’ was conducted which had a total of 599 voters, 43% of them indicated that they comment on a blog for traffic. I suppose only 10% people comment with an intention other than getting traffic, and bloggers like me put up a top commentators widget to reward them for commenting. As a part of getting good ranking for keywords on search engines, people use those keywords instead of their name to get a good position on the search engine results for that specific keyword. But since the top commentator’s list shows the name used with the number of comments(which are the part of the link). If you don’t know yet, it will not help you in SEO.
For example, I commented on a few blogs with my name ‘Abdulrehman’ and after getting on the top commentators list of about 5 blogs, after a week I did a search for my name on google. Not even tenth page showed up my website, then I search for terms like “Abdulrehman(3), Abdulrehman(18), Abdulrehman(7)” and for each my website showed up first which means I was SEOing for these terms, which means that I can do little or nothing about it about ranking for the search term ‘Abdulrehman’.
So being a considerate blogger, I care for my commentators, and for their convenience removed the comment counter from being being a part of the link, it still shows up but as simple text, not a part of the comment. It will not do you any harm for doing such a favor for your commentator as it is really easy. All you have to do is make little changes to the Top Commentators plugin. Here’s what you’ve got to do:

1. Open Dashboard.
2. Click Plugins.
3. Scroll down and look for the Top commentator plugin’s row, in front of it there will be a link ‘Edit’, click it.
4. Right click in the text-area and click Select All, Paste the entire content from this text file into it and click ‘Update File’. Alternatively you can check step 6.
5. You’re Done
6. As in this image, look for this part in the text-area and cut and paste the code shown in the picture and then click on ‘update File’:
   

Once you’re done making the adjustment to the Plugin,  and the number of comments with every commentator is not a part of the link.  If you experience any problems, feel free to ask me. If it works without any problems, do leave a few good words! This is for the good of your commentators, now 3arn.Net is even better for commenting.
Update: An update of Top Commentators widget came on January 5th, the link to the text file in the article has been updated, but now there are two places where you have to make this changing in case you do not copy/paste the content of the text file. Search for the same thing 2 times on the document and do as told in the article two times, one will be for using Top Comentators with their Gravatar and the other for the simple text top