Wordpress Comments & Google- How Much Does Google Know?

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I would like to ask a few questions, to those that know, and or maybe think they know.

We know that content is king, But do comments get indexed by Google? and if yes.... How much does Google know about the comment, and do they care?

Do they see a comment like an update to a post, or do they see and look for relevance in comment to the actual article or post?

In other words...If a blog is receiving comments hourly...Is this telling the Google robots that there is value here, based on social discussion... and do the bots look for relevancy in the comments to the topic, and what value do they hold on spam if approved "nice blog post, keep up the good work!"

Do they know which ip of the commenter, if it came from within your blog or externally?

If Google indexes a comment, (which I'm 98% sure they do, what value does it pass to the link that placed it )and what kind of value exists in a spam comment like "nice work!, love your blog" which im sure has been indexed tens of thousands of times...

Wordpress also has a feature that you can edit the comment from within...Does Google know when you edit that comment, and do they care?

I'm asking, because I and many others I'm sure would like to know...

Do comments matter on your blog, in regards to SERP position.

So those that know...Let us know! :confused:
#search engine optimization #comments #google #serps #wordpress
  • Hi sitywyde,

    Good question!

    The answer is that Google will devalue any web pages that permit comment spam. Once they devalue those pages they will pass no link juice. The websites that permit that web spam will suffer in rankings, and in certain egregious cases they will be de-indexed for allowing that web spam to pollute the World Wide Web.

    As Web spammers escalate their vicious attacks on unsuspecting bloggers you will likely see an all out war on web spammers. Their activity is being documented and it will become part of their permanent reputation, impossible to erase. Web spammers may at some point have to change their names and hide their past identity to ever hope to regain any respectability.
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    • Seriously D where do you come up with this stuff?

      I mean I hate spamming in comments too but there are ton loads of sites that are not up on their spam protection and still pass link juice.
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  • In my experience it's based on content of the comment as this impacts the relevancy of the page and the outbound link within the comment (name of person leaving comment or links within comment).

    I had a whole bunch of spam comments placed on my site so I edited each comment and removed the outbound url and made them more relevant to the post.

    Google passed the PR4 to the posts and still indexed and ranked the site for the keywords I was targeting.
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    • WebPro News covered this comment recently. They supposedly interviewed a Google Engineer and his statments on comments are not what you want to hear. He said Google places little value on comments and off topic comments just dillute the value of the real content, which certainly implies that comments are crawled.

      Google knows just about everything about sites... automatically. You can't really hide your sites from them as they are a registrar and most people used shared hosting.

      The only way to really mask sites from Google is to register in Proxy and put them on different IP Addresses. Even then simple slip ups in cross linking or content sharing could tip them off.

      But ultimately most people in the IM niche only comment for Back Link purposes and waste a lot of time.

      If your comments are targeted and relevant then the links themselves should generate your traffic.
  • Comments in wordpress help increase the social recognition of your blog or website. Also, Google has adjusted its algorithm to index Facebook comments. So expect this to bring traffic to your site by way of long tail keywords as well. Discus comments aren't being indexed as regularly now so it seems the standard wordpress comments or Facebook comments is the way to go.

    Regards,
    Clint
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  • this is worth posting on the subject Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Hard facts about comment spam
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