Are Your Comments Leading to Poor Rankings?
Published on July 7, 2015
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As we all know, or should by now, that quality comments on our websites can help to boost our website rankings, I know it has done wonders for me. I just received a 588 word comment on one of my scam reviews that is like a short blog’s worth of content. I can’t wait to reply to that!
But when it comes to the details of the person leaving the comment, could it be harmful to your rankings for that post? Are your comments leading to poor rankings or at least a slowing of your ranking progression within the search engines?
What could I possibly be talking about? I am talking about the leaving of a website URL when a person places a comment on your website. You know how when you go to leave a comment you would leave your name, your email address, and then your website address? Well that is the URL that is REALLY BAD for your website rankings.
SO WHAT TO DO?
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Simple solution. When leaving a comment just leave your name and email address, do not include your website URL. Now if you are the recipient of a comment that has a website URL, just delete it. To do so is very simple. When in the comments area of your WordPress dashboard you will notice an X just after the domain name. Click that X to delete the URL before you approve the comment. (See image below).
Now you may be saying, hold on Robert. Why should I do that? I certainly do not want people deleting my URL because I want that backlink. Well first off you should know that backlinks like that are of NO benefit to your websites anymore. Only natural organic backlinks from content sharing are important now.
But the following reasons I only just learned about a week ago. Website URLs will lead to “poor rankings” and “traffic leak” those are Kyle’s words exactly. He says that as website owners “you should never allow comments on your site with the URL still included with the user details, this should be deleted.” (See below image of his comment).
So what I recommend, and what I am personally doing mainly because I have way too many comments on my website, is to delete those comment URLs from now on. I am not going to go back through all of my comments and delete them, I will for some but not all.
I have 17 posts on my website on Google Page 1 with several in the #1 spot, I see no need to alter comments on those posts. I will delete them on the comments of posts that are not on Google Page 1. But from now on, delete those URLs that come to you within the details section of a comment.Share this insight
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