Benefit of Comments in SERPs

[soralsokal]

I found the posts with comments are ranking much better for my blog.

But most of the users are commenting on Facebook, when I share my content. Thats bad, because I don't have this discussion on my site. I am using the standard WordPress commenting system.

No a good commenting option for my would be Facebook comments (or Comments Evolved is also a quite nice plugin for FB, G+ and WP comments). The question is? Does Google still give these Facebook comments on my site as much value as 'native' WordPress comments. Or are they discounted in some way?

The second question of course would be, if it is wise to hand over all of the comments to Facebook and loosing control over them. But I think I could dramatically increase comments if I switch to Facebook commenting system...

[anthonydnelson]

If you think you would get more discussion using Facebook's Commenting platform, go for it. Be sure to have the comments pulled in via API and rendered on the page, so you keep your SEO benefits. Read more on this page: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments

You can probably find a Wordpress plugin that takes care of this for you.

[chandana8888]

It is some kind of traffic but for SEO i don't think so

[soralsokal]

I found this plugin for WordPress:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-facebook-comments/

Does anyone has experience with it?

[soralsokal]

For anyone searching for a similar topic: The plugin mentioned above is not in sync with Facebooks new developer guidelines.

But I found this is working: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fatpanda-facebook-comments/