: Disqus 2012 comments NOT being indexed by Google We run a high-traffic website at http://www.onedirection.net and we've been using Disqus throughout this year, initially to great effect. We
We run a high-traffic website at www.onedirection.net and we've been using Disqus throughout this year, initially to great effect.
We accepted the upgrade to Disqus 2012 back in June, loving the increased user experience and the better community feel - albeit back to an Iframe again. However the fact we were specifically told that the comments are now being indexed by Google was great, and the dynamic nature of the iFrame suited our site (all our pages are cached, so by using Disqus the comments are updated straight away).
However, it seems that the Disqus 2012 comments are not being indexed, and we've noticed an obvious fall in traffic over the last few months. Initially we didn't put this down to Disqus and focused on other issues (Google algorithm updates etc). But we're quickly coming down the reasoning that our pages now contain less indexable text, and we are getting less traffic because of this.
We've tried emailing Disqus directly but they're very slow and don't seem keen to help.
Any thoughts on this?
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You should do very less blog commenting in those site where it is going for pending. Because they will consider your comment in proper manner. You should post your comment in Wordpress comment plugins friendly websites. So that you will get higher rank as well as best organic traffic. Comment practice in SEO is good. But excess is bad.
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Hmm, first of all, if your SEO strategy depends on Google indexing your comments, you're doing something wrong. I know that user-generated content can help you rank better in some ways because it's usually natural content about asubject related to your website, but I kind of doubt you're getting less Google love because you don't have enough indexable text.
Instead, try optimizing some other things first. Your <head> element is full of scripts, your main page loads over 1.2 MB, with >300 requests (2.39s for the DOM to load, then another 27! seconds to fire the onload event). It's slow and bloated, and Google won't like that. Your HTML also is quite a mess, which makes it harder for Google to see what is relevant content and what isn't.
But the most important part: no, Google will not index iFrames. Disqus is indexable because you can link it to your Wordpress comment system, where the comments through Disqus will be injected into your own comment system. That way, if Disqus won't load Wordpress shows the same comments from it's own database, allowing Google to index it. Right now it looks like that's not the case. See wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/integrating-disqus-into-wordpress/
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