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.
327 Comments
Hi,
maybe its important, maybe not:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11943
hmm... i must try this plugins..
btw, thanks for your information .. ;)
Hi, thanks for the plugin.
I've this error in Apache error.log when it's active.
[error] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'post' ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0, made by require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, SEOSuperComments->TemplateRedirect, load_template, require_once, include, get_popular
I use 0.64 version.
Oh man this is great and I wonder why I have not heard about this plugin. You are a wordpress rockstar :)
You're Genius!! thanks for the nice plugin. Wait for your update :D
I am having a problem with the comment page titles. I have All-in-one-seo set to re-write my titles for my post, which I want, but it is also re-writing the titles for the comment pages. This of course causes many duplicate title tags for search engines.
Vladimir, is their a workaround for this or is this going to have to be resolved with All-in-one-seo?
I contacted the the Author of All-in-one-seo in regards to the titles being re-written and they released a new version, Version 1.6.5, which allows you to exclude certain pages from being altered by All-in-one.
I simply added /?cid= to the new excluded pages section and now the titles are no longer being re-written. This will take care of those pesky, duplicate title tags.
Does the modified xml sitemap works with latest google xml sitemap plugin version 3.1.5?
Great post. Since we are SEO company this smart plugin helps us by increasing the visitors for our websites.Thanks for ur excellent post.
Hi,
Unfortunately the author links in the Recent Comments widget do not link to the author pages, but to the normal homepage, although the link is http://www.domain.com?cid=72 for example. If I'm in a singlepost (http://www.domain.com/title-of-posting), the author link in the Recent Comments widget changes to http://www.domain.com/title-of-posting?cid=72 and links to the correct page. Could you please have a look at this?
Thanks, smoochy
I updated to 0.6.3 and it no longer works on my blog. I reverted to the previous version...
the same but maybe 0.6.4 fixed it?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-super-comments/changelog/
cannot try it out now.. my girlfriend wants met to watch tv.. tomorrow. :)
thank you for the update, Vladimir!
Yes 0.6.4 fixes it just watch tv and relax :)
after updating to 0.6.2 it seems not to work anymore?
Fixed in 0.6.3
on a blog it does not worked when updated to 0.6.2 its working now, but on blogs without updating to 0.6.2, the new 0.6.3 seems not to work, like the update on the first blog from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2.. (?)
The only thing I'd want to see is that if you have the 'Show comment author urls ' on, that the shown url is actually linked and perhaps styled. Maybe in parentheses for distinction from the commenter's name. Seems only fair, rather than adding a step or two in order to go to a commenter's site.
Otherwise, thanks for the effort!
Hello, please consider adding this check at the beginning of the SEOSuperComments_author_link() method:
or adding these two options:
- leave pingbacks / trackbacks alone
- show original link in admin area
Thanks for the interesting plugin!
Good patch, included in 0.6.2
Google has dropped the indexed comment pages down to 3 (organically indexed) so I rather think there are some issues which prevent it indexing them, as it has just been dropping pages as soon as it indexes them. There must be some other factor at play, or else Google is against them...
i checked some of comment pages created by this plugin not cached by google..is there any use if google not caches it
Great plugin. After a week my visitor numbers notably increased.
At this time, this page http://bit.ly/fFQTQ supports all comments in one scrollable sub-window, and (unlike googlereader) one can use one's browser to search for a string within the sub-window. Some questions:
1) What is the impact on search-engine ranking of such a display?
2) Any idea if this could be done with WordPress?
3) And if so, can it be made compatible with SCO Super Comments?
Thx!
@Vlad: It was the theme, some customized themes need a little change to make the plugin works.
Here is the solution
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/292358
Thanks again, great plugin!
What's new or changed in the latest version ?
Hello!
Having two problems over at http://www.twentysixsearch.com/blog/decision-engine-optimisation-seo-for-bing/ which I wonder if you may be able to help with...
Firstly, the title doesn't appear to be working within comment pages - it's still using the post title.
Secondly, if the author has a URL, the links to comment pages are being assigned a rel="external" property. Any easy way to remove this?
Has the title tag issue been fixed? I noticed a while back that the comment pages are using the same title as the post and this cause all-in-one-seo to use the the same canonical link.
This is a very smart plugin. Gives more functionality for users, and can help SEs identify more specific content. I actually thought of doing something similar a couple of years back but never got round to finding someone to do it.
Issues I'm having with the latest release on my site is that it does not show 'recent comments by author'. It only shows the single individual comment.
On this site sometimes when clicking a commenter's name it just shows the full post again, so I think there's still some bugs to iron out so I'm holding off with this plugin now, but can't wait for a more stable release.
If you want someone to run some tests with you just email me.
It's not working on WP 2.8.3
Rogelio,
I am running the plugin on WP 2.8.3 and it is working just fine for me.
Hi, Vladimir! Great plugin! But I sometimes get an error. If the author of the commentary is not writing the link (just name), the plugin gives the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function esc_url() in /home/vsuhovru/public_html/wp-content/plugins/seo-super-comments/seo-super-comments.php on line 235
Fixed both issues in 0.6.1
The sitemap limit is indeed 50,000 urls so if you have large amount of comments you should not apply the sitemap fix and let Google index the page naturally.
I'm sorry for the multiple comments on the same issue... What I thought fixed the problem (deactivating and reactivating) wasn't actually a "fix". It's rather weird... "Fatal error: Call to undefined function esc_url() in /home/fruity/public_html/wp-content/plugins/seo-super-comments/seo-super-comments.php on line 235" occurs most of the time when I click on an author's name (to jump to his/her specific seo super comments page). And sometimes it doesn't. Weird.
I had to revert to the previous version.