Three Reasons To Use Disqus

#1

Post by dshah » Sat, May 10, 2008, 4:13 PM UTC

Three Reasons To Use Disqus
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Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

#2

Post by fortes » Sat, May 10, 2008, 5:41 PM UTC

What about the loss of page rank and search due to content not being hosted on your server? Could disqus perhaps allow you to use a custom subdomain (such as disqus.yourblog.com)?

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by quellhorst » Sat, May 10, 2008, 6:09 PM UTC

fortes wrote: post #2

What about the loss of page rank and search due to content not being hosted on your server? Could disqus perhaps allow you to use a custom subdomain (such as disqus.yourblog.com)?

Disqus comments are included via javascript, so you don't have outbound links that diminish pagerank.

Comments won't be indexed by Google but your article text and links to the article from other blogs will have a bigger impact on where you appear in SERPs.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by Xichekolas » Sat, May 10, 2008, 6:27 PM UTC

He forgot the most important reason (to me): You can stick a fully functional comment system on anything without doing it yourself. Why reinvent the wheel and deal with managing your own when you can just tack on an excellent system by someone else?

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by gaika » Sat, May 10, 2008, 6:43 PM UTC

And the biggest reason not to: javascript is required. It causes really bad problems in IE: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to...

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by jwr » Sat, May 10, 2008, 6:44 PM UTC

One bit of information is missing:

what's the price?

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by DenisM » Sat, May 10, 2008, 7:53 PM UTC

I'm surprised at the number of websites that hide, or as in this case do not have search functionality. Isn't that the first thing you want to do when you arrive at a forum and have a question?

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by aneesh » Sat, May 10, 2008, 7:56 PM UTC

jwr wrote: post #6

One bit of information is missing: what's the price?

Disqus is free for bloggers

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

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Post by kyro » Sat, May 10, 2008, 8:01 PM UTC

aneesh wrote: post #8

jwr wrote: post #6

One bit of information is missing: what's the price?

Disqus is free for bloggers

I don't think he's talking about a monetary price, rather sacrifices that bloggers might be making to use their service, as others have pointed out here - page rank, etc.

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

#10

Post by gexla » Sat, May 10, 2008, 8:04 PM UTC

I am not convinced. I do see the advantages but I would rather have the text on my blog. The comment text gives your blog a little more life in the eyes of Google and adds just a little more content.

If I don't want to mess with creating a comment system then why did I build my own blog in the first place?

I think a good compromise to make things easier for the commenter is to use Clickpass for easy login.

I don't mind that my blog is being commented other places (like we are doing here for this entry) but if a commenter is at my site then that is where I want my text to live.