How Blog Comments Help You SEO Your Website
If you’ve been wondering whether or not you should allow comments on your company blog, allow me to add some fodder for your decision making analysis. Comments on your blog help you optimize your website and make it easier to be found for more key phrases and for the key phrases you are already targeting. How is that, you ask?
Glad you asked. It’s real simple.
The search engines love content. The more the content, the merrier (although Ask and MSN limit the amount of data on a page that they will index). In other words, that 300-word blog post you wrote yesterday will get more search engine traction when it has 25 comments on it.
There are three ways blog comments help you:
- Blog commentators will use the same key phrases in their comments that you used in your blog post. That will mean more instances of the keyword on the page and therefore you are more likely to be found for that key phrase.
- Blog commentators will also use related key phrases that you didn’t use in your blog post. That will result in your blog post being found for key phrases that you didn’t target.
- Thirdly, some blog posts, like forum posts, appear as separate pages in the search engines. Note that I said “some”. In order for your blog posts to appear as separate pages they’ll have to be threaded and coded just so.
Blog comments help you optimize your company’s website. I strongly encourage you to allow comments on your company blog to increase your search engine optimization.
111 Responses to “How Blog Comments Help You SEO Your Website”
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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Indeed, maintaining a blog and commenting on others blog is really helpful for SEO..however.. some new webmaster use Keywords or Phrase for generating more backlinks, which is not good…other thing is that some post off beat or unnecessary comments on other blog…while leaving a comment you must try constructive and positive comments on others blog as it is the genuine process of give and take policy
Danny Higson
I think SEO is one big cluster-muck of different tactics. Some say backlinking is all the rage, then it’s blogging, then it’s long-tail-jizzer-whats.
I think some good relevant titles, and a bit of reciprocal linking, along with some back linking will get you a long way. Easy!
I am on the fence about allowing comments. I’m concerned about people writing offensive stuff and blog spam. For now, I will do without blog comments.
Nick,
I’m really glad you’ve opened this discussion. I’ve been curious about this very topic! My concern is that blog comments may look like links pointing out of my site, which would reduce the Page Rank calculation i.e. “leaking link juice”. On the other hand, you made a very good point that blog comments look like additional content to the search engines and may also help increase keyword density.
As for Brian’s comment, this is a very real concern and you should say up front that offensive posts will be removed by the moderator.
Thanks again,
Bill
Nick,
Besides the SEO reasons, it is always good to have lots of blog comments as it gives the impression that the blog is popular and has value to its readers. Most importantly, it can provide great motivation juice to the blog owner to write more great articles.
Blog comments show how the posted blog is valued and appreciated. At times it may contain some criticism, but that’s the whole point of commenting, it opens your eye to the ‘negative’ aspects of your business. Aside from that, it is very effective in establishing your authority and credibility in your niche.
it all helps and its important to have a bit of everything links can come in many different forms but they are all valuable
Blog comments are certainly a sound way of reinforcing internet presence for your site for main keywords. Try to leave your comments on high PR blogs like this one.
Commenting helps increase your presence with search engines. But, I wonder is it better to hire an SEO company to market your blog. There are so many companies that offer this service.
Blog comments add more to your content and really helps the SEO. At the same time a good moderation is required to prevent spam comments from entering into your commenting system. The plugins like CommentLuv makes blog comment more rewarding. A good comment policy is also a must.
The more interaction there is on a website or blog always helps you SEO. Search engines are about presenting fresh content, recently updated.