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Hi All,

Are disqus blog comments any good for seo? The comments themselves are in Java, not html and it is thought that the Google bots cannot read them. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Cheers,
Seamy
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    Is no one biting on this one?
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  • Profile picture of the author traveloworld
    Hi,
    Never do this disqus blog commenting process.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    No. You're better off commenting on blogs that use HTML.
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  • Profile picture of the author 36burrows
    Blog commenting sucks in general for SEO. HTML, Java or otherwise.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sandakelum
      I use Disqus on my blog. All comments are well indexed on Google. I recommend it.

      For example, search for following on google,

      එකනං එච්චර හොඳ අදහසක් නෙවෙයි. ඹයාගේ පදිංචිය ලංකාවෙ නං මෙකෙන් ඈත්වෙලා ඉන්න ඒක තමයි ඇගට ගුණ

      It's a comment left by me. As you can see, it''s indexed without problem

      Cheers!
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      • Profile picture of the author varange
        Originally Posted by Sandakelum View Post

        I use Disqus on my blog. All comments are well indexed on Google. I recommend it.

        For example, search for following on google,

        එකනං එච්චර හොඳ අදහසක් නෙවෙයි. ඹයාගේ පදිංචිය ලංකාවෙ නං මෙකෙන් ඈත්වෙලා ඉන්න ඒක තමයි ඇගට ගුණ

        It's a comment left by me. As you can see, it''s indexed without problem

        Cheers!
        I think I'll start posting in Thai now. Maybe moderators will be more inclined to let it pass. Anyone have experience with this?
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  • Profile picture of the author TeamTCW
    I was using all the blogging platforms for commenting but I was not aware of this thing that Disqus is based on Java..
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    Even if blog comments are useless for seo, you still need them for link diversity. Dofollow blog comments are more less impossible to find these days. No wants to give up their link juice.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by seamy82 View Post

      Even if blog comments are useless for seo, you still need them for link diversity. Dofollow blog comments are more less impossible to find these days. No wants to give up their link juice.
      1. They are definitely not useless.
      2. You can find plenty of dofollow blogs if you know how to look.
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    Also, එකනං එච්චර හොඳ අදහසක් නෙවෙයි. ඹයාගේ පදිංචිය ලංකාවෙ නං මෙකෙන් ඈත්වෙලා ඉන්න ඒක තමයි ඇගට ගුණ shows up because it is in the html on that page. Normal disqus comments do not have the comment in the html.

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  • Profile picture of the author AgentHomes
    I tend to stay away from Disqus blogs. If you cannot see the comment when you view the html source on the page then the google bot isn't going to see it either.
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    • Profile picture of the author shab
      Originally Posted by AgentHomes View Post

      I tend to stay away from Disqus blogs. If you cannot see the comment when you view the html source on the page then the google bot isn't going to see it either.
      Wrong! I hope you're going to do more research this time.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasono
    Doesn't matter, if you're gaining targeted traffic with this then it's fine. It's a comment management system. You can create your own though if you want but if you want a simpler one, this is fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    JSProjects enlighten us on how best to find them. As I have tried loads of different commands and specialised search engines but can't get anything but no-follows
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by seamy82 View Post

      JSProjects enlighten us on how best to find them. As I have tried loads of different commands and specialised search engines but can't get anything but no-follows
      KeywordLuv enabled blogs are generally dofollow.

      You can also "follow" people around who have already commented on a DoFollow blog. Since, chances are, they've commented on others. This works best if they use unique anchor text. Example: "Ron from Best Gardening Supplies"

      Plug that into Google, select "Discussions" and go. Of course this is going to be mind-numbingly time consuming, so you're better off using a tool like Scrapebox if you'd prefer to do it yourself vs purchasing a list / package that is already put together.

      Even with Scrapebox, though, it still takes me about 3-4 days to gather all of the URLs, run DoFollow checks, run PR checks, gather other posts from the blogs, etc. (If I'm putting together a large list.)
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  • Profile picture of the author cardine
    Google's crawlers can use Javascript and scrape content that was generated by Javascript.

    So they are definitely not useless.
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    Who provides this service? I'd buy it. I can't be bothered trawling the Internet for do follow blog comment opportunities.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by seamy82 View Post

      Who provides this service? I'd buy it. I can't be bothered trawling the Internet for do follow blog comment opportunities.
      There are plenty of people that offer commenting services. Especially here @ the Warrior Forum.

      Warrior Products & Services
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  • Profile picture of the author Rebeccha Haase
    Why thinking so much before making a comment? IM is not the same game for everyone. Results may differ in different section. You cannot deny anything including disqus.
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  • Profile picture of the author seamy82
    No one can come up with one example where a disqus comment has been indexed by Google. Yes the Google bots can read javascript from certain sites (facebook) but it does not mean that this is enabled for all websites. I think they're useless and pointless.
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    • Profile picture of the author varange
      I get good traffic from Disqus forums.

      Now to figure out how to post in them with Scrapebox. Has anyone any ideas?
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  • Comment links are fine for diversity but not serious link building.

    And it doesen't matter too much if you find "follow" or "dofollow" comments. The way Google works nowadays: They assess what kind of link you have on the page. They can see that it's a comment link and will treat it like one.

    I recommend leaving high quality manual comments, with your proper name and make the comment highly useful. That way, you can get some good targeted refferal traffic.
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