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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Super Comments Settings
After installing this plugin on my site using the Magazine Premium theme it says that I need to create a WordPress Template page for the comments to be posted to.
How is this done? Can you be specific please.
Thanks
WordPress Comments SEO Template Tutorial
The WordPress page template is optional when using the SEO comments plugin, you don’t need it.
If you find the output not to your liking, say something that’s part of your theme just doesn’t work with the WP SEO comments pages output, that’s when you make a WordPress page template to add/remove theme features (change the code).
In short you would make a copy of single.php, make a copy name it single-2.php for example.
Edit single-2.php in a text editor and modify the code to add/remove the problem features.
by doing this the original single.php file (that’s used for the blog Posts output) isn’t changed, all that’s changed is what you see on the WordPress SEO comments pages.
Since every WordPress theme is different it’s impossible to give code examples, it wouldn’t work with your theme without me having a copy of the theme, installing it, see what the output looks like and making a single-2.php file myself: not offering to do that, pointing out you are on your own, I only offer code advice on Stallion Responsive modifications :-).
On the WordPress SEO plugin options page I do give an example code change for TwentyFourteen.
David
WordPress Comments SEO Template Tutorial
Seo Benefits
Not sure of seo benifit and seems like this would cause your site to lose link juice? Your thoughts follow or nofollow?
WordPress SEO Comments and Nofollow
Yes it costs link benefit to index your comments as WordPress SEO comments. Every link from a webpage requires PR/link benefit.
The worst thing you could do though is nofollow the comment links, nofollow deletes the link benefit rather than conserve it (pre 2009 it conserved the PR for the do follow links, Google changed how it treats nofollow).
Current best SEO practice is avoid using nofollow for anything, especially for internal links.
The cost of indexing the WordPress SEO comments is relatively small and the SEO benefits are worth it.
1. You are linking to an internal webpage that links back to the main post using relevant anchor text. Your comments when turned into WordPress SEO comments are acting like a WordPress post silo because the comments are related to the post and they link back.
2. The PR passed through the links is spread further through your website, it’s not lost link juice, it’s doing SEO work. If you nofollow the links there’s no PR passed through the links which means Google will index them as virgin webpages (webpages with no incoming links**).
*I’ve been testing how Google treats the WordPress SEO comments pages when there are no links to them (added them to a Google XML sitemap and submitted via Webmaster Tools) and the results are not good. WP SEO comments pages that have the links will rank in Google for relevant phrases, especially very long tail SERPs. However, the unlinked (only linked via the XML sitemap) are spidered and indexed by Google, but they tend not to rank for anything. To be worthwhile they need the link and if you added a nofollow link it would be the same as having no link.
Been researching SEO for almost 15 years and you can pretty much guarantee everything I do is thought out to this level SEO wise.
If you want even better SEO of the WordPress SEO comments check out the Stallion Responsive theme, it includes a more advanced version of the WordPress SEO comments plugin, see the anchor text rich link to the WordPress SEO comment in the bottom right on this comment (anchor text is “WordPress SEO Comments and Nofollow”), that’s the Stallion Responsive version. With Stallion Responsive the SEO is far more advanced.
David
WordPress SEO Comments and Nofollow
godaddy yummi template
Dear Sir/Madam
In my wordpress blog topicslive.com I have Godaddy Yummi theme and inserted your WordPress SEo Comment plugin. Can you please guide me how can I create template file.
I am using Godaddy Starter managed wordpress.
Regards,
Vikash Sharma
SEO Comments Plugin Needs Comments
You probably won’t need a new WP template file to use the Stallion WordPress SEO comments plugin, but if you do there’s basic instructions on the plugins options page.
Had a very quick look at your site, you don’t appear to have any comments at this time. Without comments the comments plugin has nothing to work with, so right now your site won’t benefit from the comment plugin.
Try adding a comment as see if a link appears at the bottom of the comment you make. Similar to the link on this comment with anchor text “SEO Comments Plugin Needs Comments” (I use a more advanced version of the free Stallion WP SEO Comments plugin).
David
SEO Comments Plugin Needs Comments
Doesn't work with a child theme
Dave,
I was trying to figure out why template changes weren’t working for me and it turns out this plugin doesn’t seem to work with my child theme. I did a number of template changes within a custom file in the child theme and they didn’t display.
However, when I moved my modified template file to the parent theme, it worked. This is not ideal, as it is not very upgrade friendly. Do you have thoughts on how to make this all work with child themes, or could this support be added to a future update?
Thanks!
Doesn't work with a child theme
New at making code...Help with SEO
I have created a web blog site and I need to set-up html code, I think, so that when someone googles my name (website name) it comes up. I called my hosting (BlueHost) contact and they sent me a link to install, which I did. I installed WordPress SEO Comments plugin. The problem is I have no idea what I am doing and not sure how to apply this to the website. If have opened the file in the edit mode, is this where I apply my information and then save? I read several blogs on how to create the code and I am just getting more confused. Can you help me? What I am looking for is to have our website come up when someone does a search on the internet if they only use the name. Help please or direct me where to get the help I need. Thank you, Yvonne
New at making code...Help with SEO
Help and suggestion
Hi
I was using this plugin on my previous site and it used to work awesome (i converted comment section in a review section then)..
I got my website redesigned from a vendor and he created 2 different section 1 for review and 1 for comments — i want to know if there is a way for me use this plugin such that the functionality for ‘comments’ is mirrored for teh review section in my site?
Thanks.. any suggestion will be helpful
Help and suggestion
WordPress SEO Plugin Reviews
Can’t say for sure as don’t know how the review part of the site works.
If the reviews are added as comments, then yes they should be accessed via the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin.
If your developer has created something unique for storing the reviews (not stored as comments), then no it won’t by default generate the SEO Comments pages.
David
WordPress SEO Plugin Reviews