: The default integration method for all of them -- Facebook, Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre -- is to use Javascript to include the comments in the browser. Thus Google and other spiders

@Moriarity557

The default integration method for all of them -- Facebook, Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre -- is to use Javascript to include the comments in the browser. Thus Google and other spiders cannot see the the user generated comments, as these don't exist in the parent page HTML.

So in terms of on-page SEO you don't benefit at all from user generated content on these hosted commenting systems. (User engagement and ease of use is of course another story.)

Disqus has a documented workaround for including their comments directly into the parent page. It's not pretty, but it should work well enough if you have PHP and (My)SQL.

See also "Add comments to 'static' pages without Javascript so they're Google-able?"

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