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!)
Download
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
Hello,
thanks for this great plugin!
I have a question conerning the URLs it generates.
Is it possible in any way to get clean text urls using mod_rewrite instesd of ?cid=111 ?
Something like {domain}/{blog folder}/{article}/{comment title}.html?
Thanks a lot for any answer!
Torsten
Vladimir,
I am testing this out now. I am thinking for seo purposes it would be better to have the title of the comment be in the post page title rather then the title of the post over and over. I have some posts with lot's of comments so it turns into many posts all with the same exact title. Google has not indexed any of these virtual pages in 4 days so far so I don't know if this plug in helps or hurts yet.
Am I missing something?
John
That's seriously pretty cool. Very nice plugin! Good job!
I have a suggestion for the plugin, actually it's something I want to see in this plugin.
Basically I want to be able to edit the page created for each comment (that ends in the url form of comment-page-1/?cid=2), since it's not possible to edit the page from the wordpress dashboard.
What if I want to add adsense/html/java between the list of author's other comments and the comment itself for example. It would be really great if you could edit the page somehow...
Two problems here.
First is, when I add WordPress' recent comments widget at homepage sidebar, it shows homepage but adds cid. Except the ones at homepage and homepage's other pages, the plugin correctly shows that comment's special page. It has to fix.
Second is, I wanna re-design that comments' page. But I didn't get how can I re-design it.
Note: I may be bad at English, so, sorry :)
I've downloaded SEO Super Comments. I think this plugin just what I need!
Thank you for your idea! Best Plugin In The World.
I am shocked I have never found this plugin before. It is marvelous. Be sure to turn off canonical option if you are using All In One SEO. Other than that this thing is a dream to work with. I like the fact I can now see all the comments by one person on one page, or at least the most recent. Great job!
Ooops, my previous comment got messed up... basically, what I wanted to show was that URL always looks like this href = " comment-2356 " (when viewed page source in browser), not the full URL. Although, it still functions correctly.
Just wondering if this is a bug or if it's by design. Driving me nuts, trying to figure out how to fix it...
The dynamic permalink to the comment author page looks fine, meaning clicking the author's name will lead correctly to the dynamically generated comment author page. But if you view the browser page source, the URL appears incompletely (just shows "#comment- & number) as below:
... instead of the full permalink address to the comment author page. I checked other people's blogs using this plugin... and it functions the same way on their sites... Seems odd...
yup, you are right Technologia i also tried it but it is still not working.i got some new plagins tools for WP themes that is SEO All..try it it is good and work too.
Great idea!! I tried it out, and I think it works great. I would like a way to remove the commenter's website from the post. Some are long and don't work well in many of the templates I'm using.
salute to you vladimir, honestly, i get many tricks from yours and put it to my site. http://nowtrends.co.cc ;-)
it works perfectly. Thanks for the Great Plugin!!
I've created an updated version of Google XML Sitemap generator 3.2.3 to work with SEO Super Comments. Please visit: SEO Super Comments - Update
Thanks for the Great Plugin!!
that plugin works for me as i find here i try it on my blog it customized my comments, thank u!
I have been using SEO Super Comments for a while now and I just noticed that 'Google Webmaster Tools' are indicating duplicated content across the site.
blogname.com/post-name/?cid=6239 generates the comment page. Now the same post will have many pages with different cid ids depending on comment id. These new pages for every new comment have same meta and the Google is marking them as duplicate meta entries.
Hey Vladimir, is it possible to crate the sitmap mod for the latest version of xml sitemp 3.2.2 ? I would be thankfull - and I love your plugin...
I changed some things...
made my own template.php to dele some functions like the comment template or tags...
delete the "recent comments" for a single comment page...
and insert some ads on my commet template...and now its pefect...I just need the new sitemap plugin changed : ' (
thx
Yes that would be a nice addition, however I am currently out of time so waiting for a contribution
Hi Vladimir,
I am using Comfy WP theme and your latest version of SEO super comments plugin and I have a problem.
When I click on the comment I got the warning saying that there is a problem in single.php line 5.
Are you aware of this?
Thanks,
Igor
Ok, I think I know where the problem lies. Im using paginated comments, and that required me to change the standard wp code on the comments section. What should this code include, in order for it to be compatible with your plugin?.
Thank you again,
JF
I have a feeling it has to do with the comment aproved notifier, that plays a key role in the webiste.
The individual links for that are http://pregunte.masgol.com/?p=53#comment-11685
Thank you again, and a facinaning and brilliant pluggin!
Hello,
I think this pluggin is exactly what I am looking for. But when installing it, I do get the URL's attached to the CID. The problem is, that im getting a 404 error when I follow the link. I have a few other comment pluggins installed. I would like to know what the critical route of the super SEO Comments pluggins is, to make sure it works even with other pluggins. you can view the site, at http://www.preguntasdeportes.com. You will see how important this plugin is for the site.
Thank you,
Juanfra.
Is it possible to customize comments only one page ..
this plugin work to ( comments pages only )
Without the rest of posts .
I installed this plugin in my blog.
What are these 2 options?
Show comment author urls
Nofollow author URL
Not understandable. Can you add a not in this plugin page?
Thanks.
Gonna give this a try on my site !