Comments on: Facebook Comments and SEO

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:36:11 +0000

Mike,

To my knowledge Google is still only indexing a few select sites with the default Facebook comments installation. The sites must have high trust and authority for that to happen. So using the hack where you display the comments ‘behind’ the actual iframe is still likely your best bet if you want to use Facebook.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:54:56 +0000

This was posted some time ago now and I haven’t seen a lot of discussion within the last 12 months. Is Google still only indexing a small fraction of comments? And is it still advisable to perform the hack?

One of my clients has a custom built blog which is getting hammered with spam comments and very few legit ones. I was hoping by adding the FB comment box it may help to address both issues. I have always been aware of the iframe issue so have never really considered it as an option until now.

By: ahwebdev

ahwebdev — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:09:34 +0000

A great plugin for wordpress to take facebook comments out of the box and put it in html format. Facebook AWD SEO Comments

By: indtvforum

indtvforum — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:38:06 +0000

I wish I could get more comments on my own blog to get discussions going. I notice just a couple of comments get others going, but getting the first comment or two is difficult.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:40:11 +0000

Yes, he did. I’ve been meaning to update this post to reflect the new information provided. (Thank you for the reminder.) It’s an interesting solution but I wonder how many sites will go the extra mile to implement the work around. It’d be much nicer if they had this available by default.

By: Dax Davis

Dax Davis — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:26:57 +0000

Looks like he responded to your question finally. He supplied some PHP code to pull the comments out of the iFrame. Now that makes it interesting…

http://www.quora.com/Are-Facebook-comments-crawlable

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By: Debby

Debby — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:47:36 +0000

When will we expect to see the outcome of all this RECENT maneuvering by FaceBook and Google to capture the market, gather data, market to groups, drive where people read and post? Do the users have any input?

By: Facebook Comments – your comments are no longer yours

Facebook Comments – your comments are no longer yours — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:56:15 +0000

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Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:32:35 +0000

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