While there are many articles on how to get backlinks and traffic by posting a comment on a blog, there are not many on the seo benefits of your own blog’s comments section.
In this article I will give to you my opinion on the benefits of your blog commenting section, and how you can make your comment section seo friendly.
1. Your blogs commenting section allows your readership and subscribers to have a point of contact with the blog owner as well as with each other.
This benefit alone is huge. Here are a few key points to help you grow your online business.
If your online business is transactional based and you just want to sell a ‘one-time’ product to a customer, or all you want is adsense clicks on your site, then ‘Content Is King.” But…
If you want to build a “internet marketing” business with a loyal subscriber and customer list, then content is not king – ‘Relationship Is King!’
Your blogs commenting section helps you bring a community feel to your business, and allows others to feel and see that they are not alone in seeking your advice.
2. The search engines love dynamic sites that are frequently updated. With comments being added to your blog, your site is constantly being updated by others 
.
Here is proof that your comments are in the search engines….
Check out the image above and you will see that Google does in fact index your blog comments. This blog comment is made on my blog post, “How To Protect Your Affiliate Commissions,” and the comment was made by Corin Zander.
3. Using and hosting your comments on Disqus or Intense Debate means you are losing free SEO value.
Many bloggers use the Disqus or Intense Debate comment plugins for the bells and whistles, but they do not realize that they are losing seo content that is free.
4. Make your blog comment section into ‘dofollow.”
By default, the wordpress comment section is ‘nofollow,’ meaning that when someone places their link in your blogs comments section, it passes no pagerank.
This really is a debatable point, and what you do will depend on your business model. By turning your blogs comment section into a ‘dofollow’ you will attract a lot more comments, while giving away pagerank at the same time.
For my business model, this is a “dofollow’ blog for my comments because I am more concerned about relationships than about pagerank. I feel that the benefits far exceed the negatives.
5. My plugins commenting list – These are the commenting plugins that I use on this blog and on others:
- CommentLuv
- KeywordLuv
- WP Comment Warning
- WP Remove DoFollow
- Subscribe To Comments
- WP Incentive
- MaxBlog Subscriber Magnate
These plugins work for me and do all that I want in my ability to add value to my readership, while at the same time bringing more value to my blog and business.
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Well you learn something new everyday. I’ll be more thoughtful of how I reply to commenters from now on to add a couple keywords in the text.
I also added the various plugins like CommentLuv and KeywordLuv as I like the idea that community is King and I thinks it’s a nice way to thank commenters.
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thanks u sir for such nice information i like your point that social relationship is more important than PR ie once u get good relation with other, customer will automatically come to the site,pr is just for search engine not for a layman to visit the site
thanks u sir for such nice information i like your point that social relationship is more important than PR ie once u get good relation with other
We generally tell all our customers to think of commenting on other relevent blogs as a way of showing another blog’s audience how much they know/ how interesting they are. So this new audience will click on the link back to their blog. This is another method of driving traffic to your site and entices people to write really well thought out comments, instead of junk to get ranked higher on search engines…
I’m working with site that has a lot of video content (flv & mp4).
Some of the files are local, but some of them are from partner’s projects.
Is there any link checker for such kind of stuff, for remote media files? It’s not enough to check that link to the file return 200.
Very often partners are removing files but instead of 404 page their site still sends 200 code and some kind of sorry page. But it kills flash player on my page of course, and as result I have page with dead content.
So it’s important to know that for example ******/movie.mp4 is real movie file, but not just live sites page.
Thanks for any help.
“Your blogs commenting section helps you bring a community feel to your business, and allows others to feel and see that they are not alone in seeking your advice”. I strongly agree on this, through blog commenting, discussions and queries are open..Our misconceptions on one’s idea will be corrected and answered..It can build relationships towards the author and the readers and the commenter.
Indeed “relationship is king” for successful businesses out there. Having a good relationship with people around them is the best investment you can make. And blog commenting gives you 1 step further to connect with your subscribers and patrons.
As a blogger about social media, I feel that you are very right that comments will be a growing area to watch this year. Like you say, comments keep the conversation going. They also provide additional insight to the readers and the bloggers. Comments offer a different perspective and put a “face” to the readership.
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I just love KeywordLuv – it makes the life much more easier and I always prefer blogs with it when I work with seo. Of course commenting gives advantages to both sides. The commented site gets the dynamic and richer content and the commenting site gets the keyword popularity and sometimes link juice. Google has recently (last year) changed the nofollow rule. Now you lose link juice even if using nofollow. The only difference is that the target site doesn’t get it. It just dissapear (at least google says it).
Hey Mark- I never thought about having everything dofollow on my sites but you do make a good point. Now that I look at it, I am contributing here to your blog and it is a win win. I receive a link and your advice and you receive my comment to increase your page content plus I’m now buying your TubeGroove. Win win all around.
You are very generous and a person that looks beyond the average. I like your points and thinking on this one-I also allow some friendly comments on my blog, it’s the spammy ones that I hate. I will add your blog to my bookmarks and look out for your new articles.By the way, you need an Israeli flag in there
I hope you never stop! This is one of the best blogs Ive ever read. Youve got some mad skill here, man. I just hope that you dont lose your style because you are definitely one of the coolest bloggers out there. Please keep it up because the internet needs someone like you spreading the world..
Hi, As a blogger about social media, I feel that you are very right that comments will be a growing area to watch this year.
Thanks..
Hi guys
I am also satisfied that blog comment play major role to increase the back link.Your blog is very nice i got very informative knowledge from this blog.
The only problem I have with dofollow is that I get massive amounts of spam. One site I run gets a good 20 spam comments a day. -_-;
Kinda makes me sad.
I totally agreed with your point that blog comment play major role to increase the back link.Really nice information you have posted.
As a blogger about social media, I feel that you are very right that comments will be a growing area to watch this year. Like you say, comments keep the conversation going.
I recently installed a do-follow plugin on one of my sites as well as a “recent comments” widget on the sidebar. I’m going to give it a little time to see if there is any noticeable increase in spam before I decide whether to implement this on the rest of my sites.
Thanks for the article Mark. Blog commenting and SEO helps bring a community feel to the business. http://www.organicseoindia.com provides various SEO and link building services to Indian and international clients. Organic SEO optimize the website that fulfill the requirement for W3c standard. Organic SEO optimize the site so that it helps the website to rank well in google, yahoo and msn.com.
I also installed many plugins like commentLuv and KwywordLuv for commenters and comment viewers. And really for SEO purpose it’s very useful for readers because “CONTENT IS KING”. Many things l learnt from you about comments so thank you very much.
I really like commentluv and keywordluv for it provides benefits to both the blogger and the commenter. I also believe that when you respond right away to customers’ queries, it makes them feel valued and it develops a customer loyalty. Relation is indeed king in internet marketing.
‘dofollow’ is ideal. Aside from attracting more comments, it helps in beuilding relationships. I personally think, the best way to reach the top in online business is to build relationships. You are totally right when you stated and I quote ‘I am more concerned about relationships than about pagerank. I feel that the benefits far exceed the negatives.’
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We are restructuring our blog at the moment. The question of keeping comments/no comments is kind of a tough one. I think we will but have them highly moderated. There is a lot of people saying that you should take comments off of blogs? Are other people really doing this?
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hope some day i’ll get it ..
thank you. very helpful stuff for all..
Excellent point. Sharing is caring! We use Disqus because it is easy for people to leave comments by signing in with a Google Account or similar. I love seeing the blogs and websites of people who take the time to interact with our site so I enjoy having their profiles be linked.
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Blog comments are helpful in increase page rank of website. Your information is very informative for me. Thanks for sharing.
To be social is good for everyone & maintain the network strongly….
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