If you are a user of the Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Theme do NOT install the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin discussed below. Stallion Responsive includes a far more SEO advanced version of the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin that’s fully integrated with other theme package features (for example comment titles). See the Stallion Responsive SEO Super Comments Tutorial for more details. For all other WordPress theme users the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin below gives Google and other search engines access to your comments in a format that allows search engine spiders to index and rank comments in their own right. Download WordPress SEO Comments Plugin from WordPress.org plugin repository. February 5th 2016 Update v2.2 Release: Fixed a couple of bugs. Had […]
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Great info Dave. I have not personally used this plugin but always looking for new ways to add relevant SEO tools to my website. Thanks for you input.
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New information to me. Will try this and keep you updated about my site’s SEO ranking.
How to turn WordPress Comments On?
Hi David,
Beeen looking around the theme and wp and for some reason the comments section is not showing on either pages or posts.
Any ideas please?
Thanks and blessings!
Carl :-)
How to Turn WordPress Comments On Sitewide
Stallion Responsive doesn’t turn comments on or off other than via some WordPress page templates (some Stallion page templates don’t have comments within the code).
It’s a WordPress core settings under “Settings” >> “Discussion” you’ve probably unticked.
If you’ve been running a site with “Allow people to post comments on new articles” unticked all your posts and pages will have comments disabled.
You can either turn them on one by one by editing a post/page and under “Discussion” tick “Allow Comments”.
Note: If the Discussion form is missing you might have to turn it on, see top right hand corner of a post while editing and click the “Screen Options” button and tick “Discussions”: here you can enable/disable what to show on your edit post screen. For example I never use Tags, so I untick Tags.
Or if you have a lot of posts with comments turned off and don’t fancy manually editing dozens of posts, go to “Posts” on the left menu. If you have a lot of posts to edit again click “Screen Options” and change the number of Posts to show, I set to 50, if you go higher than 50 and your hosting isn’t decent it can cause issues when bulk editing (next step).
Tick the “Title” box and this will select all the posts shown on the page (50 if you changed the setting above, if not will be 10 at a time).
Under “Bulk Actions” set “Edit” and click “Apply”.
Change the “Comments” option to “Allow” and click “Update”.
All the posts that were selected will have comments enabled.
Note: Pings have no SEO value, actually damaging if you allow them with the wrong settings so suggest not enabling Pings.
For a large site you’ll need to repeat this for multiple pages of posts. A site with 500 posts would with 50 posts per page require 10 “Bulk Actions” set “Edit”….. to edit all posts.
Do similar to the “Pages” screen on the left menu.
BTW When writing comments whatever you add to the comment title is used as the Stallion SEO Super Comments page title tag. You’ve been starting all your comment titles with “Hi David”… which if I didn’t manually edit them (your last comment I changed the comment title to “How to turn WordPress Comments On?” would mean I’d have pages optimized on this site for “Hi David…”!
Some of your comments with the comment titles I’ve added are ranking high in Google for long tail SERPs.
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Note the first image result :-) that’s because your avatar image from Gravatar is cache on this site (another Stallion performance SEO feature).
Since you’ll have this same issue with comments turned on with your websites (assuming you use the Stallion SEO Super Comments feature and comment titles on) you should practice now thinking up unique and relevant comment titles when commenting here. You will find yourself manually editing a lot of your user comments comment titles as many commenter tend not to add anything useful SEO wise.
For a well commented site getting the comment titles right is really important. This post is about a Comments WordPress SEO Plugin so I want the comment titles to mostly support that and related SERPs. The comment title for this comment is “How to Turn WordPress Comments On Sitewide” which support this posts main SERPs via the two words “WordPress Comments”. We also have a useful phrase part “How to”, lots of searches look for things via “How to …” so will help with SERPs like “How to SEO Comments”, “How to SEO WordPress Comments”….
David
How to Turn WordPress Comments On Sitewide
Fantastic WordPress SEO Comments support
Hi David,
Thank you for your fantastic support with this WordPress Comments question :-)
I had everything unchecked so no comments area in any of pages and posts.
50 posts pages edited at one time was fine and im on a hostgator reseller package and it handled the work load.
Appreciate your diligence!
Thanks and blessings
Carl
P.S. With all the “Blessings” I’ve left on your site you might end up in the serps for that search too :-)
Fantastic WordPress SEO Comments support
How to set the text that goes out when an SEO comment is replied to
Hi David,
I noticed that each time you reply to a comment there is this:
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See you in the comments….
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Where do i set this in the theme so that I can send a personalized message with my reply to comments
Thanks and blessings!
Carl :)
How to set the text that goes out when an SEO comment is replied to
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded Plugin
I use the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded WP Plugin and set what to send via the plugin options.
David
"Recent Comments by" showing all latest comments
Hello David,
First, thanks for an amazing plugin.
One problem that I see is that “Recent Comments by” is showing all latest comments, not just the authors latest ones.
How can I fix this?
Thanks
WordPress Recent Comments by Author
Should only be that authors comments.
The WordPress SEO Comments Plugins grabs the latest 5 comments that match the authors email address.
Without seeing a URL only thing that comes to mind is you have multiple authors using the same email address?
In the version of the SEO comments plugin that’s part of the SEO package I develop I don’t include as many extra comments at the bottom, have 5 excerpts of the authors recent comments and have a bunch of additional SEO features built in.
See the output by clicking the link to the right of this comment with anchor text “WordPress Recent Comments by Author”.
David
WordPress Recent Comments by Author
Comments by Author Name
Hello David,
Thanks for your reply.
Now it makes sense. all the comments on my site don’t have an email.
Is there a way to change the selection to “name”?
Thanks
WordPress Recent Comments by Author Name
No comment author emails, that’s a new one :-)
Not tested, but edit the file
/wp-content/plugins/blog-comments-seo/blog-comments-seo.php
Change line 104 to:
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare("SELECT comment_author, comment_author_url, comment_content, comment_post_ID, comment_ID, comment_author_email FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_author ='%s' AND comment_post_ID = '$pid' AND NOT comment_ID='$cid' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 3",$author));And change line 114 to:
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare("SELECT comment_author, comment_author_url, comment_content, comment_post_ID, comment_ID, comment_author_email FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_author ='%s' AND NOT comment_post_ID = '$pid' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 5",$author));That should do it. That should for both the “Author Name Also Commented” and “Recent Comments by Author Name” output use author name to select the comments.
If you have comments with the same author name they will be listed together. So if you have two people posting with the name Richard, they’ll mash together. Using email addresses it’s less likely to happen: generally only occurs when using fake email addresses.
David
WordPress Recent Comments by Author Name
Duplicate header titles for comments pages when using SEO Comments plugin with WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin
Hi,
I’m using a popular plugin called “WordPress SEO by Yoast”.
When I enable your plugin along with Yoast plugin, ALL the header titles for the “comments pages” created by your SEO Comments plugin are the same as the original POST TITLE.
Google reports the comments pages as “duplicate titles” which is not good for SEO. When I disable Yoast plugin, the header titles for the comments pages are fine (correctly showing excerpt of the first 10 words of the comment).
I really want to use your plugin, but I don’t want to disable Yoast.
Duplicate header titles for comments pages when using SEO Comments plugin with WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin
AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress Plugin False Positive
Is fruityoaty.com your site?
Tried to load it and got the following error:
I’m on a dynamic IP, I use a popular broadband supplier in the UK (SKY Broadband) which will randomly set one of it’s IPs each time I turn my router on.
There may well have been another SKY Broadband user posting comment SPAM, but since the IP is dynamically set it’s blocking users (like me) who don’t comment SPAM!
That’s a major problem that I’m blocked, so you should check that out.
David
AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress Plugin False Positive
Wrong Yoast SEO Title Tags
The Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin doesn’t have an option to turn off it’s automated replacement of all title tags, so when it loads a page generated by the Comments WordPress SEO Plugin it replaces the title tags!
It used to be worse, Yoast also added the wrong canonical URL to the SEO comments on the original Prelovac version of the plugin. So even if you got the right title because Yoast set the wrong canonical, Google used to think it should only indexes the main post. I added a code fix, so that’s no longer an issue.
Yoast SEO isn’t a very good plugin, see Is Yoast the Best WordPress SEO Plugin?, don’t understand why webmasters use it in 2014.
I have a more advanced version of the SEO comments plugin built into Stallion Responsive (WordPress SEO package I develop) and because despite my recommendation not to use Yoast, Stallion users still use Yoast! I had to find fixes around the Yoast feck ups so Yoast wouldn’t replace the perfectly crafted Stallion SEO Super Comments title tags and canonical URLs. Basically had to build a different way to set a title tag so Yoast wouldn’t change it!
BTW I assumed you noticed how much better the output of the SEO comments are on this site. They have unique titles and the links to the comments use the titles as anchor text instead of the View Comment text.
David
Wrong Yoast SEO Title Tags
Is there a workaround, or alternative plugin to Yoast SEO, to prevent the duplicate title issues when using Wordpress SEO Comments plugin?
I’m having the same problem as fruityoaty. I really like the idea, and the results, your plugin produces. But my MOZ site crawl threw up 461 duplicate titles after I installed the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin.
And I get that you don’t approve of Yoast SEO, but I’ve tried with All In One SEO and SEO Ultimate. Neither of them worked. And I’m also thinking of trying SEOPressor premium plugin. But I suspect it will be the same story.
After a lot of experimenting, what I found was that with AIOSEO and SEO Ultimate, if I don’t enter anything in the ‘SEO Title’ field, there is no duplicate title issue. So with those two plugins it does work to some degree. But it means you can no longer write a variation of the title to show up in serps. It has to be exactly what the post title is.
But in terms of other functionality, Yoast does seems better for most users. It’s a lot easier to understand for the novice.
However, if there’s a better alternative that works with your plugin, I’d be happy to ditch Yoast. It’s time for a change I think. :-)
Is there a workaround, or alternative plugin to Yoast SEO, to prevent the duplicate title issues when using Wordpress SEO Comments plugin?