The whole concept behind the plugin is presented in Presenting SEO Super Comments Concept which I suggest reading.
For each user comment we will create a new dynamic page on the blog, holding the actual comment information. This page will not actually exist in WordPress database, but we will create it dynamically using a WordPress plugin.
What we instantly get in this way is big jump in site's index visible to search engines. This is possible because blog comments are crawl-able, index-able and most importantly rank-able content. Also meaning you will start to get search engine traffic for the context of the comment.
The old author link in the comments will now lead to the newly generated page. Author's URL will still be displayed (and we can do-follow it now as it will be only one external link on the page).
The concept relies around optimizing the target page using title and H1 tag using the context of the comment. So basically we will take the excerpt of the comment and use it to create the page title and H1 tag and in the body we will old the content of the comment (plus some more goodies, read on).
Since now all comments normally drain page rank even when nofollowed (bad for your site) the whole idea of using them to generate links back to your site instead and get free indexable content along the way, looks just much more appealing.
To spice things up, the dynamic comment page concept additionally features:
- List of author's other comments on the post are presented (good value for the visitor, more content)
- List of author's other comments on the blog (even more content, chance to interlink to your other posts, more value to the visitor)
- Author url links are do-followed (option, but why not?)
- Extra few clicks generated will increase your pageviews, lower the bounce rate and increase any CPM advertising revenue
- I have also created a mod for hugely popular XML sitemaps plugin to include all the new dynamic comment pages into your sitemap, so that the search engines can index the pages more quickly. Download the modified files here and replace them in the plugin folder (works for plugin version 3.1.2, experts only!)
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Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to change your options
- That is all. You can check your posts for new links.
New from version 0.6
I added the option to specify 'friendly' websites that have their links intact, and also dofollowed.
This adds you the possibility to send some of your high ranking page PR juice to a friendly site.
Disclaimer
The concept behind SEO Super Comments is experimental. You are using the plugin on your own responsibility.
Need WordPress SEO Expert? Feel free to contact me.
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Good job, Good idea to increase CPM advertsing revenue , i will testing with my blog.
but i aggree with alain, It would be really powerful if the pages of commentators also designed for social stuff.
Anyway thanks.
A few observations from my attempts to get it integrated:
It needs some name checking to handle anonymous commenters (without any names at all), otherwise it fails when echoing back "x was written by y", as y is a blank. Something very simple will do from my experience:
if ($name == '') $name = 'Anonymous';
An option to disable the automatic insertion of links into the_content and instead rely entirely on a custom template would be helpful, if accompanied by some simple functions to allow easy addition of both links to the post and to the comment.
Links need to be easily addable outside the immediate area of "the_content", and I am having much difficulty with this, doing it manually has all kinds of problems.
The whole "other posts by x" display fails to display at all on my setup - not sure why this would be. Shifting it to a template format would help here, as modifying the plugin code to acheive layout changes is cumbersome at best.
Not sure if this can be accomplished using normal WP functions, but a gravatar template function would also be useful.
Sorry, wrong URL. Try this one:
http://wordpress.org/search/blog+is+blank?documentation=1&forums=1
@Jaff: I don't see how there's any way your problems could be connected to the plugin. If they were, deactivating the plugin would have fixed the problems. It must have been a coincidence that your problems started at the same time you used the SEO Comments plugin.
I don't think anybody here can help you specifically. I suggest you find the generic WordPress troubleshooting guide - I think it's at http://wordpress.com/support/ or similar - and work through that.
Best of luck.
The backend of wordpress is fine but the blog's pages index and all the post are shown completely blank please I have to show my blog to some friends, this might become embarrasement, anyone please tell me situation is seo super comments plugin deactivated and deleted but pages are appearing blank http://know2know.com/answers/
please help me out I re-installed wordpress as well
Okay the latest version seems to be working better but I cannot see the extra pages in the sitemap. Is this something to do with WordPress SEO?
HELP ME
please help to remove the plugin and its after effects, as I removed the plugin (by deleting it in the plugins menu) my pages still appears blank
I installed the plugin on lates 2.8.2 worddpress but all my pages started appear blanks even main page I deactivated the plugin but it still showed blank pages please tell me what to do I have removed the plugin nothing has happened
In the next update I will include clickable links option and release modified xml sitemaps plugin. keep the ideas coming.
I think that all that's needed for auto-url-parsing is to run the text through the existing wordpress function make_clickable(). That's a good start, anyway!
This is looking better and better - thanks Vlidimir :)
Still two problems:
1 - XML Sitemaps plugin doesn't appear to be picking up the urls.
2 - urls aren't automatically parsing on the comments page.
Any updates? :)
The idea is excellent, congratulations, but I'm going to wait a little bit more since I think there is still a lot of space for improvement on this. Again, the idea is great!
Hi Vladimir,
nice work before all (sorry for my english i'm french).
I have 2 questions :
1- any link in the plugin list (admin panel) to modify directly some lines in the files (for exemple to translate in french some part like "also commented", ...). Just for our reader understand what it said ;)
2- why don't make the pages of commentators really powerful for social stuff ? Like include not only their name and link to site but also their gravatar, the total number of comments they made on the blog, ... (the best will be their Twitter account, facebook, ... but impossible to found automatically i imagine).
Thanks again for your work !
There appears to be an issue with the latest version:
(click my name (Tony Lindskog):
http://www.blockbuster-previews.info/featured-articles/harry-potter-half-blood-prince-trailer-3-hq.html
bring you to:
http://www.blockbuster-previews.info/featured-articles/harry-potter-half-blood-prince-trailer-3-hq.html?cid=313
then if you click on the same movie again - it brings you to:
http://www.blockbuster-previews.info/featured-articles/.html
Thank you, Vladimir.
It works now.
Большое Спасибо :)
@Nikolay
set page.php or single.php as the seo page in the options of the plugin
Updated the plugin to 0.4 on WP 2.8.2 and now it shows blank page when clicking on the commenter name.
I had to turn it off.
@Vladimir
Great addition! I'm still banging my head against the wall regarding that orphaned code. Using a custom template didn't seem to fix the injection of orphaned code that I'm experiencing. I'm starting to think that wordpress is rewriting the fake posts. For example, on line 200 on the new version of the plugin there is a br that is replaced with a /div on the generated page. I thought it was a plugin conflict, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
It's ultimately not too big a deal, not the first time I've had to edit a plugin to get it to work with a template, but it just chaps my backside not to know what's actually causing it.
Great work on the plugin!!
The latest version 0.4 includes the option to set the template file in use for the super comments page. You can for example just remove the comments section of the page so it doesn't show other comments.
Just to report we have installed this on a highly customised WPMU and it works beautifully. We are looking to style it a little more to make it more useful to page visitors, but thank you! It is excellent.
Not only that it works great, but it looks nice on your blog the way you have implemented it on your new theme!
I wouldn't be too fast adding my modifications to any update though. It works with templates that break, but with templates that don't there is no orphaned /div code appearing. Its the oddest thing. I've poured over the templates and the plugin. I have to be missing something, but there is just no reason why they should appear.
There's also a closing /span tag that's missing too. I added it in, but dont know which line it was missing from
it had a class="ssc_info"
@Tim, I thought I was going crazy digging through my comment.php file looking for closing /div tags. Finally gave up but @Johnathan's suggestion to create a custom template file with the comments removed helped me out a great deal.
fantastic idea on this plugin. Really want to make it work.
My gratitude to you @Vladimir
Hi guys I'd appreciate if you send modifications to the plugin to me so I can include it in the next release.
...also caught that I had to add on on line 249.