Is Paging Comments SEO Friendly? Implications?

[flmgo82]

So glad to be here. Just amazed to see so many discussions over here.

I had a quick query. One of our my blog has more than 500 comments on almost 50+ posts (and in some posts, it's even 1000+ comments). This impacts the load time as well as the experience on mobile. So, wanted to understand if I enable pagination of comments, is it SEO friendly. Does it negatively impacts SEO?

I do not want to take the route of migrating to Disqus, FB comments, etc.

[Alick300]

Hi,

No it won't negatively impact SEO. Please also check this @ https://www.cloudways.com/blog/seo-benefits-wordpress-comments-pagination/

Thanks

[flmgo82]

That sounds good. Will try it.

[Everett]

I think it really depends on how it's done. You certainly don't just want a whole page of comments with no blog post above them to be indexed on Google, as the experience of landing on that page from search engine results would be poor.

You have 50 legitimately useful comments on the post? I find that about 75% of our comments are either outright spam, or poorly veiled attempts at it. You may be able to delete any that are constructive to the conversation.

If you paginate the comments to keep some of them off the post in order to speed it up, I'd recommend setting the Robots meta tag on the comment pagination pages to Noindex,Follow.