Comments on: Blog Comments And Google http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html Canadian views on the online business world Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian D. Hawkins http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1426 Brian D. Hawkins Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:15:47 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1426 PageRank is a fun, yet stressful, subject. By the time we think we get things half way figured out Google changes the play book. I picture them all at a big conference table watching a meter that indicates how close everyone is. When too many are getting close they hit the button that changes the rules. Then they all have a big laugh. Perhaps I'm just not getting enough sleep lol PageRank is a fun, yet stressful, subject. By the time we think we get things half way figured out Google changes the play book.

I picture them all at a big conference table watching a meter that indicates how close everyone is. When too many are getting close they hit the button that changes the rules. Then they all have a big laugh. Perhaps I’m just not getting enough sleep lol

]]> By: Barry Welford http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1383 Barry Welford Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:08:38 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1383 Good thought, Stephen. I much prefer long scrolling pages than having to click from page to page. For that reason, I don't like the - more - approach to avoiding duplicate problems between the blog home page and single post pages. Those who don't have my concern will find your suggestion useful. BTW I use the All-in-one-SEO Pack Plugin and noted recently that it is now inserting the canonical tag. Others may not have noted that. Good thought, Stephen. I much prefer long scrolling pages than having to click from page to page. For that reason, I don’t like the – more – approach to avoiding duplicate problems between the blog home page and single post pages. Those who don’t have my concern will find your suggestion useful.

BTW I use the All-in-one-SEO Pack Plugin and noted recently that it is now inserting the canonical tag. Others may not have noted that.

]]> By: Stephen Cronin http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1382 Stephen Cronin Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:51:18 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1382 Hi Barry, You appear to use WordPress 2.8. It supports paged comments. Why not get your theme updated to use this feature, then only allow 10 comments per page (using one of the SEO plugins that adds the canonical tag to avoid duplicate content issues)? Wouldn't that solve the problem? Hi Barry,

You appear to use WordPress 2.8. It supports paged comments. Why not get your theme updated to use this feature, then only allow 10 comments per page (using one of the SEO plugins that adds the canonical tag to avoid duplicate content issues)?

Wouldn’t that solve the problem?

]]> By: Barry Welford http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1379 Barry Welford Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:54:15 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1379 David, nofollow, etc. only affects how PageRank flows out to other web pages. It does not affect the inherent PageRank of the particular web page. Matt Cutts PageRank Sculpting post today seems to confirm this approach. It all links to my Null Hypothesis view of PageRank: http://blog.cre8asite.net/bwelford/2009/06/pagerank-calculation-null-hypothesis/ David, nofollow, etc. only affects how PageRank flows out to other web pages. It does not affect the inherent PageRank of the particular web page.

Matt Cutts PageRank Sculpting post today seems to confirm this approach. It all links to my Null Hypothesis view of PageRank:
http://blog.cre8asite.net/bwelford/2009/06/pagerank-calculation-null-hypothesis/

]]> By: David http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1377 David Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:08:52 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1377 I don't know how far common sense will get someone in the pagerank game, but here goes. It seems to me that if using nofollow as a method of preventing all the valuable rank leaking out to the websites of people who comment no longer works - in other words, that every comment with a link to the commentor’s website constitutes a leak - then Google must be looking beyond nofollow, otherwise popular blogs with lots of comments would lose pagerank immediately. And I haven't heard that that has happened. I wrote that here http://ragbag.comluv.com/2009/06/10/nofollow-dofollow-and-whyfollow/ I don’t know how far common sense will get someone in the pagerank game, but here goes.

It seems to me that if using nofollow as a method of preventing all the valuable rank leaking out to the websites of people who comment no longer works

– in other words, that every comment with a link to the commentor’s website constitutes a leak –

then Google must be looking beyond nofollow, otherwise popular blogs with lots of comments would lose pagerank immediately.

And I haven’t heard that that has happened.

I wrote that here

http://ragbag.comluv.com/2009/06/10/nofollow-dofollow-and-whyfollow/

]]> By: Jet Aircraft Charter http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1376 Jet Aircraft Charter Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:27:44 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1376 This is one of those topics that is worth pondering, but being overly attentive to every nuance is not necessary for most bloggers/web masters. Sticking to the basics and working the longtail with basic on-page and off-page factors will get the job done. Only major sites of many thousands of uniques per day should worry about working the bleeding edge of SEO. This is one of those topics that is worth pondering, but being overly attentive to every nuance is not necessary for most bloggers/web masters. Sticking to the basics and working the longtail with basic on-page and off-page factors will get the job done. Only major sites of many thousands of uniques per day should worry about working the bleeding edge of SEO.

]]> By: Kikolani http://www.otherbb.com/2009/06/blog-comments-and-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-1375 Kikolani Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:58:43 +0000 http://www.otherbb.com/?p=1244#comment-1375 I think it's possible to receive good comments after a long period of time. It seems like bloggers who attract hundreds of comments per article would be getting in trouble for something that most blogs welcome. Would paginated comments be helpful? That way each page would be limited to a certain number of outbound links. Of course, I have heard that creates duplicate content issues as well. Sticky subject! ~ Kristi I think it’s possible to receive good comments after a long period of time. It seems like bloggers who attract hundreds of comments per article would be getting in trouble for something that most blogs welcome.

Would paginated comments be helpful? That way each page would be limited to a certain number of outbound links. Of course, I have heard that creates duplicate content issues as well. Sticky subject!

~ Kristi

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