Comments on: Does user comments affect Google ranks ?

By: rakesh

rakesh — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:06:43 +0000

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rakesh — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:59:12 +0000

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By: Kazooli

Kazooli — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:18:29 +0000

Hi there,
I have just stumbled across this post and I have to say that it is a little unclear. Do comments affect your ranking by affecting density of keywords?

Is this the same in squidoo as well? I have a lens that ranks 1st, by allowing comments on my lens will this affect my rank on google and if yes will this be negative or positive?

Thank you in advance

Kind Regards
Kazooli
http://www.squidoo.com/is-copy-n-profit-a-scam

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:08:29 +0000

Kevin, the first theory holds true (lots of comments = higher crawl frequency) but I’m inclined to believe that comments do not affect the keyword density of the page negatively if not positively. They help in grabbing long tail keyword traffic if they are well indexed but they don’t affect / dilute the keyword density of the main article.

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:42:24 +0000

Mani,
It makes sense to me that the following could be true:

lots of comments = greater search engine re-crawl frequency = greater buzz = greater potential to be added to SERP

lots of bad comments = reduced keyword density = lower SERP rank

lots of good comments = greater keyword density = greater SERP rank

To me the question remains: Is it better to facilitate lots of comments in hopes that it may drive buzz even though it drives down keyword density and permits lots of link dropping by commenters?

By: Abhishek Arora

Abhishek Arora — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:00:52 +0000

Mani,

Reading this post brings to mind the awesome popularity this blog got just before the Obama election. It had perfect timing and it was popular on SU and on Digg – it averaged 350 plus comments per post! That is not even reached by celebrity bloggers like Shoemoney etc etc.

It has 1,716,894 hits since then.
See for yourself – http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

BTW, Helen is 82 and she lambasted Sarah Palin. See some of the posts – some of the comments go for 1000 more words than the original 500 word post!

Margaret had awesome SU reviews.

Loved her blog during the election time!

Margaret and Helen, didn’t even rank for their name before that and NOW they have site links! Google their name & see.

So I think, what ru postulating is correct to a degree.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:10:07 +0000

yes mate comment updates make google to crawl the post again !! higher the re-crawl frequency more good your SERP !!

By: Vishal Agrahari

Vishal Agrahari — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:51:19 +0000

Mani, this is true that commenting affects the SERP of the articles. I get traffic from comments