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Massive Amounts of High Quality Comments Query

by breezynetworks
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Hey guys,

The website that I have been building for about 2 years (content wise) is growing nicely and some of my posts have over 100 comments, (all of the highest quality, i.e. no backlinking attempts, no crappy "thanks for the article" stuff, etc.).

At the moment, I have set Wordpress to display all of them on a single post (not paginating them) and I was wondering if this is the best thing to do? One of my pest has 179 comments now and the actual comment content (all of them combined) has a word count of over 4000!

I thought that with my high quality article (its about 2300w) + the 4000w of comments would be the best thing to do but I keep getting this niggling feeling that the comments are dwarfing out my shiny article now.

Your thoughts on what I should do?

Thanks

P.S: I am building a long term authority site, I dont care if it takes me another 5 years so keep that in mind, not keen for any "tricks" or things like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Levanduski
    I'm no expert on this specifically, but I'd be inclined to think you should leave them up. As long as it is not causing your page to load slowly or anything.

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    • Profile picture of the author madlemmings
      I have not seen or heard of comment pagination - so I would be inclined to think it would surprise and or confuse people. Not what you want. One thing you can do later on once comments become irrelevant (ie weeks later) is close them. Keeps focus on your newer posts. But not everyone likes that either.
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      • Profile picture of the author AlexGeorge
        If it's working for you at the moment I would say don't fix what's broken. The only problem I could see is if there is too much info and you end up with slower loading times. This can affect rankings.
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        • Profile picture of the author TheEye
          It depends on whether this affects the reason that you wrote the post.
          • Does it affect your call to action?
          • Are you getting the result the post was created to achieve?
          With this number of comments, your engagement is excellent. Are the results you are getting also excellent?
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        • Profile picture of the author breezynetworks
          Originally Posted by AlexGeorge View Post

          The only problem I could see is if there is too much info and you end up with slower loading times. This can affect rankings.
          The posts with 100+ comments takes an extra 1-2 seconds to load (total of about 3-4 seconds max). I also worried about this but if its under 4 seconds im cool with that.

          Originally Posted by madlemmings View Post

          I have not seen or heard of comment pagination
          I think I have the correct term, I am referring to the comments spanning multiple different pages (page 2, 3, 4, etc.) when a threshold is met.)

          Originally Posted by TheEye View Post

          It depends on whether this affects the reason that you wrote the post.
          Its an adsense driven "how to" based blog (in a specific niche of course) so I dont really have any affiliate CTA besides proper ad placement, textual flow, etc. I suppose you could call my social sharing buttons a large focus as I always encourage my readers to share. Its getting results but I want to achieve the top 3 rankings for all my targetted keywords so just optimizing where possible. I offer a 24 hour turn around time for my commenters (crazy right) but its banking so I dont mind putting in the time

          Keep the suggestions coming
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Don't have a suggestion just a comment. As some have said if it's working why change it.
    Can you split test a website though such as a home page. Just a thought, I have never tried it but would be cool, how that would effect Google is a whole other story.

    Yes I've split tested pages but having a rotating home page. Ummm I may just try that lol.
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