Is Disqus comments useful as per SEO?

[bsharath]

Is Disqus comments useful as per SEO?

We have some comments on each of our pages and its time taking to moderate them, so wanted to know if its beneficial in any ways for SEO?

[UmarKhan]

Hey Karom,

Without a doubt, Disqus is a great comment tool and it's really easy to integrate and manage. If you look at their FAQ section, they claims that, it is SEO friendly (https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/1233994-common-questions-about-disqus).

In the past, Disqus was not friendly and you had to use Disqus API in order to get your comments indexed. But now, they have worked on this issue and it seems the comments are now easily indexed even if you're using the simple Disqus program.

For the prove, please look at the cached copy of this post:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Abuildfire.com%2Femail-marketing-tools%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I don't think it will hurt you from a SEO standpoint as long as you are staying on top of comments ensuring there is no spam or off topic comments. I would make sure that all links in comments are nofollowed (but give yourself to manually remove this if the content is trustworthy) and that they are relevant to the topic.

These sorts of things can potentially trip spam filters in algorithms, so too much of these items happening could hurt your SEO. As long as you are top of it, you should be fine - if anything, it will show you have integrity in making sure your site is providing a valuable experience.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[klikik230]

Umar's comment is very helpful.

What they say in the Disqus FAQ, is that page owners can synchronize comments with their website and store them locally on the page. Thus they are crawled by Google and benefit both page owner and the guest.

It means there is a high chance that your comments are indexed and beneficial.