Sorry folks who do not have blogs. This is a blog SEO tip. If you don’t have a blog I strongly recommend it though. It adds life to your site and adds more pages to ‘catch’ more keywords on the search engines. Furthermore the active content drives the search bots wild. Fresh content from blogs can rejuvenate old post and pages on your site that have gotten stale, inactive or completely forgotten.
Every blog post has its own page and every page has its own source code. If you check the source code of any given post, you’ll notice that comments on your posts count as content toward your site too. This can be a good or bad thing, depending on the types and amount of comments your blog gets. If your site is quality and worthy then people will leave comments containing content.
With so many blogs ranking on the SERP’s how can Google tell which blogs actually fulfills the point of a blog (interaction with users) and which ones will actually deliver a pleasant user experience(or at least content that keeps them coming back)? Which sites get routine posts and routine comments? Since we must consider the fact that commentators share content, it’s fair to assume getting lots of comments matching your posts can help increase your rankings due to extra relevant content backing the topic you are posting about.
Now how can I make sure my posts’ comments are comments that will help my site?
- Context of Comments: Are the comments describing what you are talking about? Are there any comments containing variations of your title or the keywords you are targeting?
- Length of Comments: If the comments are relating to the post, then the more sentences of content, the merrier. If someone wants to post a comment that’s the length of your post, cool. If 20 commentators leave 2 paragraph comments relating to your content, then your blog is doing great. It looks good to visitors for them to see interaction and you have a better chance of picking up more keyword real estate on the SERP’s.
- Amount of Comments/Links: The amount of comments should NOT be limited. BUT, the amount of links should be, because having a hundred or more links on your pages could trigger link farm flags. So the amount of commentators posting a link SHOULD BE LIMITED. It’s just safe to set your option to close at 100 comments. Sometimes a commentator creates a link and some don’t. But also take into account how many other external links you already have on your blogrolls and within that post. Then decide your comment max.
How many comments are there per post? How consistent are your comments? Does your blog consistently get 10 or more comments per post no matter what you write about? These are trust triggering questions, no?
Comments are also good because they refresh your page with new content. A lively page is a good page. Just look at the definition of “relevance”; Pertinence to the matter at hand.
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I find it frustrating when some of my posts get 25 comments but other posts that I think are great only get 3-4. I would love to be able to set a 100 comment limit someday. :)
James how do you feel about do follow? Do you find that it helps or hurts your blog?
Yeah I agree. It could also provide an avenue to reciprocal linking.
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When Google shows uniques search results, I believe that they would be unique to the person doing the searching. In this case it can have both positive and negative influences.
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I know this post is older, but wondering about the impact on site SEO of the comment system called IntenseDebate. Since the comments are held on a remote database off site of your own blog I’m assuming this would have a negative impact on SEO?
your right one of the most important is the content and length of it..but sometimes its ok if it is short but direct to the point in the topic,,thanks for sharing..
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