This post is for bloggers out there who are using Wordpress. You would all know that there is a proliferation of plugins available for this blogging platform. Some of them are quite useful and fun while others may not be necessary. Here is one plugin that you would surely be interested in – the new Disqus comments feature.
What is it all about and what does it have to offer Wordpress users? The Download Squad has a pretty good write up:
Disqus offers web publishers the ability to spruce up their comments sections with advanced features including threaded comments, avatars, and ratings. Perhaps the most significant advantage Disqus offers over the default Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad or Moveable Type comments features is the fact that users can sign up for one Disqus account and leave comments on thousands of blogs and web sites.
There’s just one problem (for web publishers): Up until now, user comments were stored on Disqus servers, not on your web page. That means search engines didn’t notice any information left in comments on your site, which could hurt your page rank. Today, Disqus took the first step to address this shortcoming with a new Wordpress plugin.
The second paragraph is the key to it all – what the plugin does is allow the comments to be seen by Google and all the other search engines out there. This is all good news for bloggers who pay close attention to SEO. The original plugin also works for Blogger but I don’t know if the updated one does. Anyone know?
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This is another great SEO plugin for wordpress, I enjoy using this combined with quite a few other plugins. Including the All in One SEO pack and the category base killer. They both work well in optimizing your blog.