How Do Blog Comments Help Your Blog’s SEO?

HI Lisa

Great post!

You have timed that to perfection. I’m getting many faceless comments and few of them I’m allowing as of now. But now need to careful of each and every comment.

Thanks for sharing this.

Sapna
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Hi Lisa,

Very interesting topic to talk about

Actually I accept the comments that adds the value to conversations and Akismet + Disqus together helps prevent spammers from commenting on the blog. There were few times I had to disapprove or approve manually too. Well, they are yet tools

By default, the comments made on Blogger are nofollow comments. There’s a way to make it do-follow but I won’t as it’s something that many bloggers and spammers obsess with and I don’t want to.

As like Andy, I just do basic SEO stuff and not worrying much about integrating SEO more in my blog. I don’t think comments on my blog adds SEO value as they are attributed as nofollow, but I highly value the responses of readers. Also the imminent trend of SEO rank for comments is something for people to worry about and I might not grant it either.

Oh yeah, I’m much concerned in approving comments and mostly what bothers me that the ones with links Else, almost any other commenter comment beautifully and in very descent manner without showing they are here for link juice or such.

Once I had to remove some comments that I’ve approved as they were bringing me fake traffic to my blog. They were with links but comments were felt good. Anyway I had to remove ‘em and after all, no fake traffic

It’s always better to be independed than dependent on factors that impose by other companies. You know, finally we need to independent with our blogs. Online World is dynamic enough The more dependent, the more work to do.

Cheers…
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This is the reason I moderate each and every comment. And Lisa, Matt is my all time favorite. I have watched almost all videos of him .
What I feel about commenting is it should be on relevant blogs only. It works a lot. thanks Lisa.
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Hi, Lisa. Years ago when I first start my Websites for Small Biz blog, I made it do follow. I found that only attracted spammy comments! So it really wasn’t worth much. Matt Cutts explained well why I’m glad I gave do follow up.

There are many elements to SEO – but I don’t see comments being a major piece. It’s great for social, however, and that in turn can help SEO (because if people like what you have to say, they might link to it on their blogs).
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Hi Lisa, great topic. A while back I wrote about allowing bad links via comments can hurt our blogs. I have no problem either spamming out a comment because the link was something I can’t allow on my blog, or letting the comment through and removing the link altogether. That just happens to be one of our Hangout topics from last Sunday, or close to it anyway.

It’s very hard to understand why we’re still seeing those automated comments; because I agree they do more harm than good and you’d think the spammers would eventually catch on. Have you ever visited one of the sites they promote and seen any significant page rank or traffic? I sure haven’t. It’s like those people that used to post on FFAs. It seemed like common knowledge that they were a waste of time yet people still used them religiously.

By the way, this post is going in our Spotlight for tomorrow’s newsletter issue. You did an awesome job and it’s an important topic.
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Blog comments are very important in a blog. You can to interact with your readers and know what they think of your post. Just beware of spammers, though since there are also a lot of them out there.

I receive frequent comments that end up in my spam folder, because while they are “on topic,” the source leads to questionable, sales-pitchy sites like those you mention. Good thing is, they’re not getting beyond the spam folder. “Delete”
Great post! I wouldn’t have thought about a negative impact from where I left comments, but, then again, I don’t tend to visit and comment on sketchy sites. At least, not that I’ll admit.
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Hi Lisa,
Interesting subject to talk about
While we need these comments to empower social proof, it’s important we give a second thought and pay attention to moderation.

I have noticed that most of the faceless comentators are not repeat visitors. You will not always see them come back. That’s enought to believe they are spammers.

What I do for the few repeat faceless commentators is guide them on gravatar. This is common with newbies.

Let’s keep the fight on. We are always the winners
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Hi Lisa,
In my opinion comments are the most important thing after content that can break or make a blog as SPAM hurts both Google and Readers and Genuine is loved by both.

And comment has really helped many people out there in Google SERPS if someone has used keyword in the comment that the owner was targeting. Still waiting to have these kinds of comments.

Great Post. Thanks for the share.
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As long as you’re smart about the comments you allow on your blog, there won’t be any real negative SEO factors. Most CommentLuv blogs have been opting to only allow “DoFollow” after X amount of comments – thus you still are encouraging comments and readers to participate, yet not giving link-juice to the negative websites that could hurt you.

I generally even take it a step further by going through all comments before I approve them, and checking the websites that they link to – if I feel that they are going to contribute negatively towards my SEO, I go ahead and remove them. I only have to actually remove the links a small percentage of the time, but that percentage still exists. Over time, the numbers build up, and I’d rather be safe than sorry.

Great post, keep up the good work!
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Hi Lisa,

It has always been a matter of question whether, blog comments helps SEO or not. I am very sure it does help if not directly as your blog links even though have a no follow tag, gets crawled by google bots from other websites. And it also helps to bring together a community discussion and social sharing. So it forms a chain reaction all together and helps ou one or the other way to bring visits to your website and optimizing it.
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Oh my Lisa I hate when people leave comments and don’t an avatar. In fact, I just check and unless I know the person or check the site and it’s not highly valuable content or a well thought out comment I just delete them. I do use the broken link checker on WordPress to make sure I don’t have any broken links. It’s just not the risk to have links on your site that could hurt all your hard work. Also, if you focus more on visitors and not seo you will see more rewards in Google. Google is almost leaning torwards less links and more quality content.
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This is extremely valuable to me.I just migrated from blogger to Thesis specifically for SEO improvement. I can’t wait to begin implementing your tips. Thanks for Grate post.

Hi Lisa,

Very interesting post! Basically though, we should just use ‘common sense’. I do not allow any ‘faceless’ comments or links back to sales pages or non-english sites (where I can’t read the content.) And if I detect comments that have absolutely nothing do do with a particular blog post I do mark them as spam.

Thanks for sharing your insights and the great Google video! That was all very helpful.

Ilka
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This is a topic that I’ve been interested in for quite a while. Although blog commenting may not improve your SEO it certainly does improve your domain authority. I tested this out recently with two niche sites.
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This is an interesting post Lisa.

I have been thinking about adding Commentluv on my blog. It seems like a very practical and helpful app.

I have built a community of readers who engage in the comment section of my blog. I value the insights and wisdom people bring to the topic/discussion. I personally value those relationships/comments more than my traffic.

I’m not a SEO expert, I wish I was so personally have no opinion about how commenting effects SEO. I do know though if we want to share and spread our message it requires having and building relationships with other people.

Looking forward to reading your blog more.

now i am confused about blog commenting .
now days i am practicing seo with my blog. i did on page seo with help of some expert .but for of page work i make lot comment luv blog comments in recent days and i got positive results also.

now your part.
any negative in this ?
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I never thought about comments possibly having negative backlinks. Thanks for the valuable tip.
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I’m curious, what are everyone’s thoughts on using Facebook comments rather than other plugins?

I integrate it into all of my sites for social sharing purposes because when someone comments or likes a post it gets shared with their Facebook community.
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