Blog Comments

[Joshlaska]

Hey guys,

My question is about blog comments. I have them disabled on my blog simply because I didn't want to have to deal with them. I get reasonably good traffic to my blog (mainly from my facebook fanpage).

Am I making a mistake by having comments disabled?

What about WP Plugins like CommentLuv. Will having this enabled hurt my SEO? What if I make every comment need approval and keep the Spam out?

And finally, does commenting on others blogs that do have CommentLuv enabled help?

Thanks!

[TGOOSE]

If you are getting the good traffic, then no need to disable, instead of disabling you as a website owner or as an admin, you have the permission to edit those posts rite, so you can just remove those links from the comments and then approve it. Because reviews and comments or more important for the new customers.

[JustDucky]

Joshua - I moderate all of the comments to my blog before and remove any links before they go live.   I find this effort worthwhile because the comments seem to increase user engagement (time on page) on the articles that have extensive comments.  These pages seem to become reliable traffic generators and seem to withstand the algo changes.