What about search engine bots?

  • Resolved flapane

    (@flapane)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there,
    first of all, thanks, your plugin is great, and I can’t understand why in the world didn’t they include such features in the official plugin.

    Google indexes the comments (which sometimes helps quite a lot). However I noticed that, if I disable javascript (yes, I know that now it can execute JS at some degree, but…) or use the “Fetch as Google” option, I just see the comment number, and nothing else. This is the expected behaviour bith both the scroll and click options.
    Do you think that it could be useful to add a <noscript> tag to the plugin and load the synced comments from the WP dbase instead, so that Googlebot (or rare users without JS) can still index (read) the comments?

    Cheers,
    F

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/disqus-conditional-load/

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  • Plugin Author Joel James

    (@joelcj91)

    Hi Flapane,

    Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, that is a good idea when considering SEO. But what if your pag contains a lot of comments? It will definitely slow down you page speed.

    Thread Starter flapane

    (@flapane)

    Hi Joel,

    That’s a point.
    I don’t know, maybe one could retreive the first 5/10 comments ( it looks like it’s possible https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_comments ), given that even Disqus shows a “LOAD MORE COMMENTS” button in order to avoid loading all the comments at once?

    Plugin Author Joel James

    (@joelcj91)

    Yes. That might be possible :). Let me have a try. I will keep you posted.!

    Thread Starter flapane

    (@flapane)

    Sure, thanks again for your plugin!

    I’ll apply the same lazy-load idea to other parts of the website who feature Disqus, but don’t use WordPress or other CMS.

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