How To Boost Your Website's SEO By Installing the Disqus Comments Plugin

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Engaging your audience through comments is a crucial SEO factor for your blogging website, as it boosts the user-generated content.

When I made my WordPress website back in March 2023, I noticed even though I had low traffic still there were many comments made on my blog posts. As of right now, I have over 1k comments made on my blog posts, but sadly, due to mostly being spam comments, I have not approved any of these comments. In fact, I have put the comments on my website on manual approval status.

This was a huge concern for me, but then I found out about a comments plugin called "Disqus." Let's dive deeper into how this tool can help you manage comments on your blog posts with great effect.

Why Disquss Plugin Is A Smarter Approach To Comments Moderation

Disqus takes the comment moderation responsibility from you, and it integrates social media integration in your comments section of your blog posts through Facebook. It ensures genuine engagements and automatically filters spam comments for you.
It provides a clean and organized comments section for your blog posts. You do not need to manually moderate the comments yourself, as it automatically filters out the spam comments for you.
The Disqus plugin is easy to install, and the best part about it is that it is completely free to use.
In the left panel of your WordPress admin, select Plugins > Add New Search for "Disqus" and find the plugin provided by "Disqus".
Select Install Now > Activate Plugin Proceed with the onscreen install instructions.
Log into your Disqus account, then choose the forum shortname you would like to install.

What Are The SEO Benefits Of Using The Disqus Wordpress Plugin

Your blog posts will get fresh user-generated content, which is great for search engine visibility.
Engaging discussions on your blog posts increases the dwell time of users on your website.
Users might provide other useful links to the comments section, hence improving your website's authority.
Comments are like social proof and a great sign of higher engagement on your blog posts, which automatically leads to more shares and an increase in backlinks to your website.

Final Thoughts

With the Disqus plugin, your WordPress website will have an easy-to-manage comments section, which will give it enormous SEO benefits. This will save your precious time in moderating comments and also increase user-generated content on your website.

Do you have a better alternative comment plugin for WordPress websites? Please let me know in the comments below.

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