: Does a "comments" link for each post on my blog hurt SEO? Does it have any sense to have a link to comments for each post in a list (e.g. category page)? If so, does it have any impact

Does it have any sense to have a link to comments for each post in a list (e.g. category page)? If so, does it have any impact on SEO?

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<a href="author_name.html">Author name</a>
<a href="2012-03-03.html">Date published</a>
<a href="some_category.html">Some category</a>
<a href="...">Comments</a>
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I'm guessing that it would be better not to use the links to comments because they're making Google to index "comments" as a relevant keyword in my site.

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@BetL925

"Comments" is such a common word used on web sites that your website isn't even going to register on scale of top websites that use it.

As long as Googlebot can get to all the pages on your site by following links, your internal link structure is pretty much "good enough". The days of being able to tweak your internal links for better ranking are pretty much over.

It isn't going to matter to Googlebot if you have a comments link or not. Internal anchor text doesn't count for much at all anymore. Googlebot will be able to find the permalink through the post title, or the comments link. It doesn't matter if you include it or not. In fact, if your comments link goes the same place as the post title link, then Googlebot will ignore the the comments link anyway. Googlebot only counts the first link for Pagerank and anchor text purposes and ignores all duplicates on the page.

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@Eichhorn148

When you add rel="nofollow" to these links Google will ignore them. This will also reduce the importance of the key word "comment(s)"

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