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01-07-2014 04:44 PM #1 kamaleon (Member)
Any SEO benefits with facebook comments?

Hello,

I keep on seeing webpages with facebook comments enabled instead of the regular webpage comments. Does that help in SEO? Any benefits of using them besides that they appear in facebook?

What are the pros and cons?

Thanks

01-08-2014 10:00 AM #2 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by kamaleon View Post
Hello,

I keep on seeing webpages with facebook comments enabled instead of the regular webpage comments. Does that help in SEO? Any benefits of using them besides that they appear in facebook?

What are the pros and cons?

Thanks
It is mostly to reduce comment spam, not for SEO.

01-08-2014 10:22 AM #3 kamaleon (Member)

Are you serious? There is akismet which does a great job for spam... I think there should be something else.

01-08-2014 10:38 AM #4 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by kamaleon View Post
Are you serious? There is akismet which does a great job for spam... I think there should be something else.
Trying copying a line from the comments section of a website with Facebook comments embedded and search for this in Google.

You will not get the result.

01-08-2014 10:58 AM #5 kamaleon (Member)

I know, but I also know that facebook is taking social in consideration for its ranking algorithm... So this is why I asked in case someone had noticed an increase in rankings after setting that up.

01-08-2014 11:28 AM #6 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by kamaleon View Post
I know, but I also know that facebook is taking social in consideration for its ranking algorithm... So this is why I asked in case someone had noticed an increase in rankings after setting that up.
At any given time, Google will have several hundreds of factors that gets fed into its algorithm, and they will be testing several hundreds more. At least for now, this is not a meaningful SEO driver.

01-08-2014 02:50 PM #7 maximallimit ()

I think its mostly for the "viral" effect it might have. When a person comment on your site , the comment will be published on his/her newsfeed.
Definitely not for SEO.

01-11-2014 02:33 AM #8 servandosilva (Member)

I agree. Not for SEO at all. If you get a ton of Facebook likes and shares, you can get an small SEO boost due to social signals (Google denies it, but they deny everything) but nowhere as powerful as doing good SEO with back links.

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