DISQUS

Andy Beal · 2 years ago

So Andy, I can filter out your usename from the list, if you'd like me to. ;-)

Andy Beal · 2 years ago

So Andy, I can filter out your usename from the list, if you'd like me to. ;-)

John · 2 years ago

Some bloggers have even made the high-school atmosphere complete by letting readers vote on individual comments. I'd never really considered the technical reasons for why top commenters might be a bad thing, but from a social aspect it's bad enough -j

John · 2 years ago

Some bloggers have even made the high-school atmosphere complete by letting readers vote on individual comments. I'd never really considered the technical reasons for why top commenters might be a bad thing, but from a social aspect it's bad enough -j

Cvos SEO · 2 years ago

Andy i love the milk pouring analogy. This would make a great graphic showing the basics of how PageRank works and why it's better to funnel links into one website rather than 100.

Cvos SEO · 2 years ago

Andy i love the milk pouring analogy. This would make a great graphic showing the basics of how PageRank works and why it's better to funnel links into one website rather than 100.

RT Cunningham · 2 years ago

I agree with the sentiment of your loathing, but I can't completely agree. I use the plugin and have the top commenters wrapped in a scroll box. It does not reset every week, month, or year. I could not care less about what it does to my page rank, my traffic ranking, or whatever. In my own very humble opinion, anything I can do to boost others will eventually come back to me. Of course, I'm not into the SEO thing either.

RT Cunningham · 2 years ago

I agree with the sentiment of your loathing, but I can't completely agree. I use the plugin and have the top commenters wrapped in a scroll box. It does not reset every week, month, or year. I could not care less about what it does to my page rank, my traffic ranking, or whatever. In my own very humble opinion, anything I can do to boost others will eventually come back to me. Of course, I'm not into the SEO thing either.

Vlad · 2 years ago

lol Andy by any chance you did not have my blog in mind writing this did you?

I did install the plugin, porbably not putting much thought into it. My origianal intention was to say thank you to my my commentors by putting their links up on the hope page wich has the highiest rank. But reading your article makes me rethink if they will trully beefit from it. Some how I thought that "dofollow" in comments was not enough, since most of those posts have no rank at all. Great article!

Vlad · 2 years ago

lol Andy by any chance you did not have my blog in mind writing this did you?

I did install the plugin, porbably not putting much thought into it. My origianal intention was to say thank you to my my commentors by putting their links up on the hope page wich has the highiest rank. But reading your article makes me rethink if they will trully beefit from it. Some how I thought that "dofollow" in comments was not enough, since most of those posts have no rank at all. Great article!

robwatts · 2 years ago

Andy, I'd read you commenting here and there about doing a post like this, you haven't disappointed.

Loathe is a strong word mind. ;)

robwatts · 2 years ago

Andy, I'd read you commenting here and there about doing a post like this, you haven't disappointed.

Loathe is a strong word mind. ;)

Aaron Pratt · 2 years ago

Comments are content.

Look at SEOmoz, they have top commenters over there who write good copy if you know what I mean. ;)

Aaron Pratt · 2 years ago

Comments are content.

Look at SEOmoz, they have top commenters over there who write good copy if you know what I mean. ;)

John Wesley · 2 years ago

I've also come to loathe top commenters plugins, not necessarily for the SEO aspect, but because they encourage the wrong kind of comments, comments for the sake of comments that aren't worth reading and make the whole discussion irrelevant. Just check out John Chow's blog for an example of this.

I do think that I will edit my single template to display my blogroll only on the home page.

John Wesley · 2 years ago

I've also come to loathe top commenters plugins, not necessarily for the SEO aspect, but because they encourage the wrong kind of comments, comments for the sake of comments that aren't worth reading and make the whole discussion irrelevant. Just check out John Chow's blog for an example of this.

I do think that I will edit my single template to display my blogroll only on the home page.

immortal_king@yahoo. · 2 years ago

This gives me an impressio that there are many duplicating redundation content is prevailing in abundancy. further we are pathetically discussing how to get through. Well tats the way of life on the Net.

immortal_king@yahoo. · 2 years ago

This gives me an impressio that there are many duplicating redundation content is prevailing in abundancy. further we are pathetically discussing how to get through. Well tats the way of life on the Net.

David Airey · 2 years ago

Excellent read Andy. I've stayed clear of the top commenters plugin simply because I don't want to clutter my site with widgets. This highlights many other reasons why I should continue to overlook it.

David Airey · 2 years ago

Excellent read Andy. I've stayed clear of the top commenters plugin simply because I don't want to clutter my site with widgets. This highlights many other reasons why I should continue to overlook it.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

@Andy - when you introduced it, it was for a test period - I am just providing some data analysis and possibly suggesting a good alternative test.

@John - Voting on comment is because of Digg - to be honest I don't like the way Digg handles comment because it disrupts the flow - maybe I need to change settings.

@Cvos - It could be used in that way, but then again if all those sites have only 30 links, the total is only 3000 for the central site and the content on each topic will be buried as happens on almost every SEO blog I have seen.

@RT Cunningham - I totally agree with your sentiment, and some SEOs who do it professionally (I don't) don't care about it on their blogs either, and I respect that attitude.
My gran as far as I can remember never gave us sweets as kids, other than maybe chocolate eggs at Easter. Birthday and Christmas presents from the age of 5 were always money that was always put in a savings account.
At the age of 17 I went out 6 weeks before taking my driving test and bought a fairly new car and paid my insurance for cash, all from that same savings account.

At the end of the day your site receives a certain amount of juice to share out, and the only way it flows out from your site is external links.

Some will flow out to external links in your content, lots will be wasted on links that don't really do anything for visitors such as submission buttons, and the remainder will possibly go to commenters in one way or another.

One of the things I have discussed in the past and it is pure speculation is whether Google attributes weight to various links and then shares it out pro-rata, or whether their might be some loss of juice when a link in the sidebar gets discounted.
You could look on the latter situation as a Link Juice Tax for being in the sidebar.

@Vlad - no fingers pointed, I just write about what I observe - in many ways the blame partially rests on the way theme developers integrate Widgets. as it is capable of supporting multiple sidebars.

@Rob - I have covered some of this before on this blog, and we have certainly had out discussions. Just bringing those thoughts to my own neighbourhood.

@Aaron - In my opinion SEOmoz discuss fairly established best practice SEO with a lot of authority - I don't have customers, I play around with things, experiment and speculate, and then just report the results or just my thoughts.
For me relevance and LSI are highly important, even if enhancing relevance creates more duplicate content (tag pages, archives etc) - A good recent example is >Toolbar Pagerank - I can't explain why my site, or that of Alice Seba rank higher for Toolbar Pagerank than Matt Cutts.

Possibly the search results you see are the top results based on using multiple algorithm threads, so sites that score well in a totally different way have a chance to rise to the top.

@John - some time ago I did a small site review off-the-cuff "How a Blogroll Can Kill Your Pagerank" that was in a very similar vein.

@Immortal - I encourage people to look on duplicate content in different ways - some aspects are bad for your original content to rank well, other times it can be used to your advantage either through strategic syndication, or providing features for readers that also enhance relevance for search engines to use.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

@Andy - when you introduced it, it was for a test period - I am just providing some data analysis and possibly suggesting a good alternative test.

@John - Voting on comment is because of Digg - to be honest I don't like the way Digg handles comment because it disrupts the flow - maybe I need to change settings.

@Cvos - It could be used in that way, but then again if all those sites have only 30 links, the total is only 3000 for the central site and the content on each topic will be buried as happens on almost every SEO blog I have seen.

@RT Cunningham - I totally agree with your sentiment, and some SEOs who do it professionally (I don't) don't care about it on their blogs either, and I respect that attitude.
My gran as far as I can remember never gave us sweets as kids, other than maybe chocolate eggs at Easter. Birthday and Christmas presents from the age of 5 were always money that was always put in a savings account.
At the age of 17 I went out 6 weeks before taking my driving test and bought a fairly new car and paid my insurance for cash, all from that same savings account.

At the end of the day your site receives a certain amount of juice to share out, and the only way it flows out from your site is external links.

Some will flow out to external links in your content, lots will be wasted on links that don't really do anything for visitors such as submission buttons, and the remainder will possibly go to commenters in one way or another.

One of the things I have discussed in the past and it is pure speculation is whether Google attributes weight to various links and then shares it out pro-rata, or whether their might be some loss of juice when a link in the sidebar gets discounted.
You could look on the latter situation as a Link Juice Tax for being in the sidebar.

@Vlad - no fingers pointed, I just write about what I observe - in many ways the blame partially rests on the way theme developers integrate Widgets. as it is capable of supporting multiple sidebars.

@Rob - I have covered some of this before on this blog, and we have certainly had out discussions. Just bringing those thoughts to my own neighbourhood.

@Aaron - In my opinion SEOmoz discuss fairly established best practice SEO with a lot of authority - I don't have customers, I play around with things, experiment and speculate, and then just report the results or just my thoughts.
For me relevance and LSI are highly important, even if enhancing relevance creates more duplicate content (tag pages, archives etc) - A good recent example is >Toolbar Pagerank - I can't explain why my site, or that of Alice Seba rank higher for Toolbar Pagerank than Matt Cutts.

Possibly the search results you see are the top results based on using multiple algorithm threads, so sites that score well in a totally different way have a chance to rise to the top.

@John - some time ago I did a small site review off-the-cuff "How a Blogroll Can Kill Your Pagerank" that was in a very similar vein.

@Immortal - I encourage people to look on duplicate content in different ways - some aspects are bad for your original content to rank well, other times it can be used to your advantage either through strategic syndication, or providing features for readers that also enhance relevance for search engines to use.

Runa · 2 years ago

Reading this article... I had will to make a comment.

I completely agree with your opinion that the top commenters plugin is useful both for the hoster and the commenters.

Anyway at the moment it doesn't seem to be very diffused through wp blogs (or maybe I just found a few).

Runa · 2 years ago

Reading this article... I had will to make a comment.

I completely agree with your opinion that the top commenters plugin is useful both for the hoster and the commenters.

Anyway at the moment it doesn't seem to be very diffused through wp blogs (or maybe I just found a few).

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

Lots of people are using it

Maybe there is some confusion

Loathe is almost the opposite to love

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

Lots of people are using it

Maybe there is some confusion

Loathe is almost the opposite to love

Leftblank · 2 years ago

Andy, you might be right that many external links are possibly negative for your ranking, however, as far as I know for instance the PageRank algorithm doesn't depend too heavily on outgoing but rather on incoming links. Keeping in mind you'll receive incoming links easier when you spread 'the link love' as well that might be a bigger advantage than disadvantage...

Leftblank · 2 years ago

Andy, you might be right that many external links are possibly negative for your ranking, however, as far as I know for instance the PageRank algorithm doesn't depend too heavily on outgoing but rather on incoming links. Keeping in mind you'll receive incoming links easier when you spread 'the link love' as well that might be a bigger advantage than disadvantage...

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

Internal linking is just as important as the links coming in from external sources.

The link you get from commenting here in many ways is more valuable than sitewide blogroll links on a blog that has 100 people on their blogroll on every page.

Top Commenters just adds to that mess on many blogs.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

Internal linking is just as important as the links coming in from external sources.

The link you get from commenting here in many ways is more valuable than sitewide blogroll links on a blog that has 100 people on their blogroll on every page.

Top Commenters just adds to that mess on many blogs.

Frank · 2 years ago

Although I agree with some of your points, I do think that especially for a small blog the psychological effect of inducing comments to grow community is far greater than any of your negatives. I've seen that plugin give some ignition to a blog that was floundering, because although the commenters come for the juice, some will get hooked into returning once they've been exposed to good content.

Frank · 2 years ago

Although I agree with some of your points, I do think that especially for a small blog the psychological effect of inducing comments to grow community is far greater than any of your negatives. I've seen that plugin give some ignition to a blog that was floundering, because although the commenters come for the juice, some will get hooked into returning once they've been exposed to good content.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

At the very least people could use if is_home() and if is_single() so that the links don't perpetuate over duplicate content pages, and at the same time increase the number of internal links on a page to compensate.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

At the very least people could use if is_home() and if is_single() so that the links don't perpetuate over duplicate content pages, and at the same time increase the number of internal links on a page to compensate.

Aaron · 2 years ago

Fascinating post Andy - really useful stuff!

I currently use the Top Commentators plugin and I must confess in the past I've been a little ignorant with how site-wide links and duplicate content can harm my site (and learnt from bitter experience!)

I'm planning a reshape of my side columns and I think I'll do away with the top commentators plugin in favour of dofollow very soon.

Thanks for the advice :)

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

What you can do is use "if is_home" so it only shows on your front page, and also increase the number of internal links.

If you use Dofollow you should also be careful to have lots of internal links to spread the juice out to your pages that might not get as many links.

Things like related posts help, and on this blog the tag cloud at the bottom of the page grows with each comment or trackback.

Aaron · 2 years ago

Fascinating post Andy - really useful stuff!

I currently use the Top Commentators plugin and I must confess in the past I've been a little ignorant with how site-wide links and duplicate content can harm my site (and learnt from bitter experience!)

I'm planning a reshape of my side columns and I think I'll do away with the top commentators plugin in favour of dofollow very soon.

Thanks for the advice :)

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

What you can do is use "if is_home" so it only shows on your front page, and also increase the number of internal links.

If you use Dofollow you should also be careful to have lots of internal links to spread the juice out to your pages that might not get as many links.

Things like related posts help, and on this blog the tag cloud at the bottom of the page grows with each comment or trackback.

Susan · 2 years ago

First let me say I agree totally with your post and you definitely have me thinking about removing my Top Commentators plugin. I use it in conjunction with DoFollow but in reality it might not be the best system. I believe in rewarding commenters regardless if they post one contributing comment a month or twenty.
Speaking of which, I found your blog while researching for my latest challenge the DoFollow Pingback Challenge. Hope you pop over and take a look, either way glad I found your blog.

Oh and love that Don't be An Idiot icon and page. I am definitely adding that to my blog.

Susan · 2 years ago

First let me say I agree totally with your post and you definitely have me thinking about removing my Top Commentators plugin. I use it in conjunction with DoFollow but in reality it might not be the best system. I believe in rewarding commenters regardless if they post one contributing comment a month or twenty.
Speaking of which, I found your blog while researching for my latest challenge the DoFollow Pingback Challenge. Hope you pop over and take a look, either way glad I found your blog.

Oh and love that Don't be An Idiot icon and page. I am definitely adding that to my blog.

Armen · 2 years ago

You have me thinking here Andy...nice one my friend!

Armen · 2 years ago

You have me thinking here Andy...nice one my friend!

HOBO SEO · 2 years ago

I was just thinking of installing this plugin too....a bit more research and I will be back...

HOBO SEO · 2 years ago

I was just thinking of installing this plugin too....a bit more research and I will be back...

Judy Andrews · 2 years ago

Hi Andy,
I just did a search for the top commentator widget and tried one site, but kept in mind that I saw your comment in the search results about why you loathe this widget. I am so happy I came back to read your post.

I have the do follow widget and I was going to add the other because my blog is new(since Dec). I thought it might help, but now after reading your post I agree with you. I'm not that great with SEO, but that makes total sense. Like I said I'm new to blogging and I really appreciate the knowledge you have.

I don't know how to make it so my blogroll is only on the index page. Would it hurt to make it a page of it's own, like a resource page? Thanks for your help, I really appreciate your blog and I'll be back another time to read more of your advice.

Judy Andrews · 2 years ago

Hi Andy,
I just did a search for the top commentator widget and tried one site, but kept in mind that I saw your comment in the search results about why you loathe this widget. I am so happy I came back to read your post.

I have the do follow widget and I was going to add the other because my blog is new(since Dec). I thought it might help, but now after reading your post I agree with you. I'm not that great with SEO, but that makes total sense. Like I said I'm new to blogging and I really appreciate the knowledge you have.

I don't know how to make it so my blogroll is only on the index page. Would it hurt to make it a page of it's own, like a resource page? Thanks for your help, I really appreciate your blog and I'll be back another time to read more of your advice.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

Having a blogroll listed on a single page is a good option.

Currently you have your blogroll appearing twice on every page, which isn't a very good idea from an SEO perspective.

You do need to think about reciprocation and also your monetization. Some of those links you are maybe making money from, and some of those people on your blogroll might be linking to you from their blogroll.

As an alternative, you might find this page helpful

http://www.avinash.ws/wordpress/how-to-add-nofo...

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

Having a blogroll listed on a single page is a good option.

Currently you have your blogroll appearing twice on every page, which isn't a very good idea from an SEO perspective.

You do need to think about reciprocation and also your monetization. Some of those links you are maybe making money from, and some of those people on your blogroll might be linking to you from their blogroll.

As an alternative, you might find this page helpful

http://www.avinash.ws/wordpress/how-to-add-nofo...

Judy Andrews · 2 years ago

Thank-you so much. I have changed my blog around and also created a separate page for resources. I also added a link back here because I really think it will be useful to other people. I have also been reading more of your posts and really appreciate your knowledge.

Judy Andrews · 2 years ago

Thank-you so much. I have changed my blog around and also created a separate page for resources. I also added a link back here because I really think it will be useful to other people. I have also been reading more of your posts and really appreciate your knowledge.

Dean · 2 years ago

Great article, I totally agree with you on the abuse of the Top commenter plugin. I was going to add it to my own site but decided not to. Also I see many blogs that don't really get the benefit of those top commenter links.

Dean · 2 years ago

Great article, I totally agree with you on the abuse of the Top commenter plugin. I was going to add it to my own site but decided not to. Also I see many blogs that don't really get the benefit of those top commenter links.

Billy · 2 years ago

I was just searching for "top commenters" and this blog entry was way on the top. Had to read why you loathe the plug-in. It certainly does not hurt the blog using the plug-in because most of them only limit the out bounds to ten. And it definitely encourages more conversation, as people are literally competing for these top commenter links. A blog shouldn't be so concerned about hoarding PR, as building good indexable content is more important when good comments contribute to the content.

Billy · 2 years ago

I was just searching for "top commenters" and this blog entry was way on the top. Had to read why you loathe the plug-in. It certainly does not hurt the blog using the plug-in because most of them only limit the out bounds to ten. And it definitely encourages more conversation, as people are literally competing for these top commenter links. A blog shouldn't be so concerned about hoarding PR, as building good indexable content is more important when good comments contribute to the content.

Jeff Hendrickson · 2 years ago

I think adding nofollow to the comments is the way to go, but if you have a smaller blog you really have to let people know you don't use nofollow on your comments. Most seo's searching google for "top commentators" or "top commentors" will be looking for sites that give some link love back to those who participate. Of course blog owners have full right to delete spammy comments so you should make it clear that you don't allow one word/sentence comments.

I just installed the top commentators plugin on my blog recently and saw an immediate increase in comments. Some are crap but most are good. I'm happy to link to other webmasters willing to freely add content to my blog. What I am thinking is that adding nofollow to the comments would be even better. I'll have to test it out.

Regards,

Jeff

Jeff Hendrickson · 2 years ago

I think adding nofollow to the comments is the way to go, but if you have a smaller blog you really have to let people know you don't use nofollow on your comments. Most seo's searching google for "top commentators" or "top commentors" will be looking for sites that give some link love back to those who participate. Of course blog owners have full right to delete spammy comments so you should make it clear that you don't allow one word/sentence comments.

I just installed the top commentators plugin on my blog recently and saw an immediate increase in comments. Some are crap but most are good. I'm happy to link to other webmasters willing to freely add content to my blog. What I am thinking is that adding nofollow to the comments would be even better. I'll have to test it out.

Regards,

Jeff

Jeff Hendrickson · 2 years ago

BTW, I got an error using firefox when submitting my last comment. Something about a cache error. I thought my entire comment was lost but entered the captcha code and it worked. Might want to look into that as it looks bad. Peace.

Jeff Hendrickson · 2 years ago

BTW, I got an error using firefox when submitting my last comment. Something about a cache error. I thought my entire comment was lost but entered the captcha code and it worked. Might want to look into that as it looks bad. Peace.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

It is one of the problems running the latest version of Wordpress and the problems it causes with a few very popular plugins, in this case spam karma.

You might think top commenters is a minor problem, but you are giving sitewide links, including all your duplicate content pages.

I see you like the plugin so much you nofollowed the link to the author.

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

It is one of the problems running the latest version of Wordpress and the problems it causes with a few very popular plugins, in this case spam karma.

You might think top commenters is a minor problem, but you are giving sitewide links, including all your duplicate content pages.

I see you like the plugin so much you nofollowed the link to the author.

Mutiny Design · 2 years ago

Personally I am a big fan. Although, I guess it is a bit of a cheap way of getting a site-wide links. But, it is also a way of encouraging comments on your site. If the comments are spammy, you could always delete them.

Mutiny Design · 2 years ago

Personally I am a big fan. Although, I guess it is a bit of a cheap way of getting a site-wide links. But, it is also a way of encouraging comments on your site. If the comments are spammy, you could always delete them.

SEO Guy · 2 years ago

I was researching this plug-in, and of course this post comes up in Google. I appreciate your comments and thoughts, I was interested in just the traffic aspect and seems that may be a little short as to what I expected.

SEO Guy · 2 years ago

I was researching this plug-in, and of course this post comes up in Google. I appreciate your comments and thoughts, I was interested in just the traffic aspect and seems that may be a little short as to what I expected.

Lewis - HCOMS web design · 2 years ago

I like the way Yahoo handle nofollows. It will still follow them it just means the link means less. Nofollow was intended to stop sites indexing pages that don't need to be indexed, and not stop people sharing relevant links.

Lewis - HCOMS web design · 2 years ago

I like the way Yahoo handle nofollows. It will still follow them it just means the link means less. Nofollow was intended to stop sites indexing pages that don't need to be indexed, and not stop people sharing relevant links.

Visalia California Real Estate · 2 years ago

Some webmaster forums are all a buzz about using this as an SEO tactic and a way to get high quality backlinks. I came across this site actually because I was researching the benefits / drawbacks to such a plugin. I just want to thank you for the insight.

Visalia California Real Estate · 2 years ago

Some webmaster forums are all a buzz about using this as an SEO tactic and a way to get high quality backlinks. I came across this site actually because I was researching the benefits / drawbacks to such a plugin. I just want to thank you for the insight.

mark rushworth · 2 years ago

valuable info this. and glad you're part of the do follow brigade... im systematically going through my domains implementing such techniques.

mark rushworth · 2 years ago

valuable info this. and glad you're part of the do follow brigade... im systematically going through my domains implementing such techniques.

Paul - Morley Computing · 2 years ago

I don't see what real interest is added to a blog by showing who the top commentators are – if the blog’s good (like this one :) ) then it shouldn't be necessary! If anything, I tend not to bother with comments when I see such a list because all too often the majority of comments are a result of competition or for SEO purposes alone rather than for any genuine relevance or interest.

Paul - Morley Computing · 2 years ago

I don't see what real interest is added to a blog by showing who the top commentators are – if the blog’s good (like this one :) ) then it shouldn't be necessary! If anything, I tend not to bother with comments when I see such a list because all too often the majority of comments are a result of competition or for SEO purposes alone rather than for any genuine relevance or interest.

Des Walsh · 1 year ago

This was a good find in the process of searching for the top commenters plugin! I'd already worked through the logic of taking a blogroll out of the sidebar but had not connected that logic to the top commenters feature, until reading this. And anyway, I'm more interested in people commenting in order to contribute something useful or interesting, rather than so as to be in some sort of commenters' steeplechase. Thank you.

Des Walsh · 1 year ago

This was a good find in the process of searching for the top commenters plugin! I'd already worked through the logic of taking a blogroll out of the sidebar but had not connected that logic to the top commenters feature, until reading this. And anyway, I'm more interested in people commenting in order to contribute something useful or interesting, rather than so as to be in some sort of commenters' steeplechase. Thank you.

Lee · 1 year ago

The top commentators plugin sounds useless to me as one good post is more valuable than ten pointless ones, although there are always sites which go for the number of posts/rivalry to be number one poster aspect to look good.

Lee · 1 year ago

The top commentators plugin sounds useless to me as one good post is more valuable than ten pointless ones, although there are always sites which go for the number of posts/rivalry to be number one poster aspect to look good.

Asia'h Fan · 1 year ago

Thanks for the great insight into the top commenter plugin. As for the duplicate content issue, I have run several tests on different blogs and I can't really tell a difference as far as SERP/SEO goes.

How does that affect the duplicate content?

Thanks!

Asia'h Fan · 1 year ago

Thanks for the great insight into the top commenter plugin. As for the duplicate content issue, I have run several tests on different blogs and I can't really tell a difference as far as SERP/SEO goes.

How does that affect the duplicate content?

Thanks!

Firebubble Design · 1 year ago

Hi Andy,

excellent post, on my first blog I added a top commenter's plugin and it was nothing but spam and hastle. i never thought it hurt my SERPs though due to duplicate content.

Sam

Firebubble Design · 1 year ago

Hi Andy,

excellent post, on my first blog I added a top commenter's plugin and it was nothing but spam and hastle. i never thought it hurt my SERPs though due to duplicate content.

Sam

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