[wp-hackers] SEO, How to turn off paged comments for search engine crawlers?

Thu Nov 12 22:38:03 UTC 2009

8th: Add <link rel="canonical" href="main permalink" /> to the <head>
of pages with older comments.

Number 8 solves the duplication and pagerank dilution issues (Thanks
Mike), but the big G may ignore indexing the comments altogether ....
that's why I thought of using Mike's idea:

>> Mike, I think your suggestion is already implemented by the SEO Super
>> Comments<http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-super-comments>plugin.

Thank you to scribu and to Mike ... and to Vladimir Prelovac.  My
comments now appear in individual pages as if they are posts (
http://blog.com/comment/999 casted from single.php ) and everything
looks very promising!  :)

My only hitch now is that my comments RSS feed still points to the
format http://permalink#comment-id .  Unfortunately, WordPress has no
filter hook inside get_comment_link() or comment_link().

2009/11/8 Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>:
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 6:20 PM, scribu wrote:
>
>> Mike, I think your suggestion is already implemented by the SEO Super
>>
>> Comments<http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-super-comments>plugin.
>
> Cool.
>
> Be nice if the approach because a standard pattern vs. obscurely
> implemented.  I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to link to a
> specific comment in a tweet, for example.  Standard patterns would empower
> many more blogs to enable that.
>
> -Mike Schinkel
> WordPress Custom Plugins
> http://mikeschinkel.com/custom-wordpress-plugins/
>
>
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