is there any role of blog commenting in ranking a new website?

Muhammad Ramzan

New Member
There are a lot of factors on which google ranks a website. But is there any role of blog commenting in the ranking of a website?

Any suggestions would be really appreciated?
 

Mark007

Member
Blog commenting doesn't help in website ranking. Blog comments provide 'nofollow' backlinks for your website and hence they are only responsible to drive traffic to your domain. They can make your website popular by driving more and more visitors to your website, but will not help in improving keyword ranking in search engines.
 

PTTed

Active Member
There are a lot of factors on which google ranks a website. But is there any role of blog commenting in the ranking of a website?

Any suggestions would be really appreciated?

If your blog is written in such a way as to encourage discussion in the blog comments then enabling blog comments can be a good way to get additional valuable content for your page. This is how forums work. When a bunch of people volunteer their opinions on a topic, all of those words, sentences and paragraphs make that page more relevant to the topic of the thread. That helps those pages on the forum become more relevant and therefore rank higher in the search results. And they can rank for more long tail keywords because there is more unique content on the page than there would otherwise be. So in that sense, yes, blog comments can be useful for SEO.

Another way that they can be useful for SEO is if you manage to attract really high quality blog comments that the readers love to read. If the readers like your blog more because of it and they return to your blog a second time and third time and fourth time, then Google thinks that your website must offer higher quality content. That is part of their "user experience" algorithm. If they think your page offers more value to searchers then they will rank it higher. So, yes, in that case, blog comments can be beneficial for SEO as well.

The downside of allowing blog comments are:
1) Potential Spam
2) PageRank evaporation through nofollow links
3) Lower quality user experience if you approve low quality comments

If you allow people to spam in your comments, it could hurt your ranking in Google.
If you allow links in your comments then a small amount of Google PageRank will evaporate from that page that could have otherwise been passed through to another page on your website. That means your page has a little less PageRank that could have boosted other pages on your site ever so slightly. The combined effect of this can add up.
If you allow low quality comments on the site then users might not like or trust your content as much. If they bounce back to the search results and click on the next lower search result, then Google will interpret that as being a bad user experience on your website. That can diminish your ranking.

So in summary: Blog comments can be a good thing if you encourage and only allow high value discussions in the comments and also if you ideally remove any outbound links at all from any of the comments including the link in the person's name.
 

Muhammad Ramzan

New Member
Blog commenting doesn't help in website ranking. Blog comments provide 'nofollow' backlinks for your website and hence they are only responsible to drive traffic to your domain. They can make your website popular by driving more and more visitors to your website, but will not help in improving keyword ranking in search engines.
Your advice is helpful, I now got a perfect idea about what is the role of blog commenting.
 
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