How to make FB comments crawlable by Google? <noscript>?</noscript>
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We get tons of FB comments, but it's all in iframe, so Google doesn't give us any credit for it.
We found a solution - turn all the comments into HTML and hide it from readers with
<noscript>. </p> <p> </p> <p>Will this help? I heard that Google considers <noscript> a scammy practice. Is that true?</p> <p>How do you guys make your FB comments SEO friendly?</p> <p> </p></noscript>
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Hi! Do you use Wordpress? There is a plugin out there: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/crawlable-facebook-comments/ although I haven't used it personally.
Additionally, here's the post that Francisco mentioned previously: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/make-facebook-comments-box-indexable-by-search-engines.
I believe both options do the same thing, just that one is a plugin for Wordpress.
Hope that helps!
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There is a post on youmoz about it, but it seemed a little shaky. This ws about 6 months ago though. Sorry, I don't have an answer.
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Thanks, we already get links from FB comments as you described and my content is kickass. Now I want to move beyond that and get my visitors' comments crawled by Google.
Consider setting up Thumbnails for your pages, you will get more clicks from FB links then
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I use Facebook Comments on almost every webpage on my site. Yes it's an iFrame, but I stick my URL in the Facebook Comments so it counts as a link and people are "talking" about me.
Here's my proof. Run OSE on my contact page: http://www.shipoverseas.com/us/contact-us.html I have 57 FB Shares and 0 Likes (because I don't have a Like button on that page).
Then run OSE on my home page: 68 Shares 167 Likes.
Google knows that people are "talking" about me on my contact page. But in reality it's me slapping my URL into the reply.
My point is "if" you are trying to turn FB comments into HTML with noscript to rank higher (because that's what you're really trying to do), you don't need to do it. Write kickass content and more people will leave Facebook Comments and keep slapping your URLs in there.
I think I should write a YouMoz Post about this.
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