Greetings I was wondering what value do google give to comments that people leave? I have this Talkback comment script that uses MYSQL and php. Does google see this as valuable content or just spamm left by users? If google sees it as spam, what is the best approach to make SEO friendly comment system? Thanks for replies Turhapuro
Simple, comments = content And better because comments = free content most of the times. Google actually adds your comments onto the content of your pages and you get value for comments. This can be verified by a simple experiment i did: I observed a wierd occurence - i was actually getting 100 uniques a day on one of my blogs for the domain name of a site i.e people searching for a particular domain name in google were being touted to my site. On running a google search i found out that i was ranking for that particular domain name and i was ranking because some one had left a comment with that domain in my site. Moreover, the best approach to comments would be to let them be - but you can reduce spam comments to a large extent by using akismet. Hope that helps
most of the web sites are using nofollow tag to prevent comment spam because this i think commenting is a death backlink building way
+REP I totally agree with this, I would just use the nofollow tag for your blog comments, it helps prevent spam from automated bots and prevents useless comments from people looking to just build backlinks.
nofollow only works for Google results. Yahoo and MSN ignore this attribute, so using a spam plugin like Akismet and/or Spam Karma 2 is recommended.
Search engine benefit should be thought of as more of a bonus...Commenting can help increases your web site ranking on certain search engines....
Thats what i though, people coming to your site to comment is a benefit. You just have to control the spam thats all. I do it on wordpress via askmet