The Stallion version of the SEO Super Comments WordPress Plugin is built directly into the Stallion WordPress SEO theme (doesn’t need installing like a WordPress Plugin) and is a highly modified version of the Prelovac SEO Super Comments WordPress Plugin. It’s easily activated on the “Stallion >> Advanced SEO” Options page.
No other WordPress theme has the set of WordPress SEO features described below.
The Stallion SEO Super Comments Plugin options descriptions are at the bottom of this post.
The original Prelovac SEO Super Comments WordPress SEO Plugin turns all WordPress comments into WordPress post like pages (they are similar to a WordPress post but lack comments and use a comment as the body of the post) and used the title of the original post for the title element of the comment post.
This is a very good idea for a WordPress SEO plugin for a site with a lot of comments, but there was no way to optimize the title element (tag) of the comment posts and if a comment was a single word comment it would still generate a comment post (that’s far from ideal)!
The original SEO Super Comments plugin also broke when WordPress incorporated canonical URL support into WordPress core, basically the comment posts had a canonical URL back to the original post meaning Google didn’t index them.
The built in Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress Plugin is a major improvement over the original SEO Super Comments plugin and fixes the canonical URL issue and adds new features.
Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress Plugin Features
Turns large comments into comment posts: On the Stallion Advanced SEO Options page you set the minimum number of characters (default 400 characters) a comment has to be before it will generate a link to the comment post. This means small comments won’t waste a link to the corresponding comment post.
Search engine optimized anchor text from and to the original WordPress post. At the bottom of a comment that’s big enough to generate a comment post there’s a link to the comment post with the title of the post as anchor text. For example all the larger comments on the page you are reading now will have a link to comment posts with anchor text “Stallion SEO Super Comments Plugin Feature”, anchor text is more important SEO wise than standard body text, as long as you name your posts with keyword rich titles each larger comment supports the posts SEO. On the actual comment post is a link back to the corresponding WordPress post using the title of the post as anchor text, so each comment post results in a backlink using relevant anchor text to the original WordPress post.
The Stallion SEO Super Comments plugin has built in support for the Hikari Comment Title plugin (this plugin is also built into Stallion, activated from the “Stallion >> Advanced SEO” Options page). The Comment Title plugin adds the option for you and your commenter’s to add a relevant title to comments (you can see it in action in the comments below). This comment title is used by the Stallion SEO Super Comments plugin as the title element (title tag) of the comment posts. This means you can SEO the title element of the comment posts and in my experience this can generate a nice chunk of search engine traffic from long tail SERPs you’ve not covered in your main posts.
Stallion includes built in Featured Image and Auto Thumbnails support, if this is activated via the Stallion options page and the original post has a featured image, any image or a YouTube video the post comments related to the posts will also have the thumbnail. The thumbnails use the original title of the post as the alt attribute text (helps with SEO).
A comment post by a commenter with multiple comments will show an excerpt of the latest comments from that commenter with a link with relevant anchor text to the comment.
If you use either the Contextual Related Posts SEO Version Plugin or the Related Posts WordPress SEO Plugin from WordPress SEO Plugins page the related post for the original post the comments are from will be shown.
Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress SEO Plugin Settings
SEO Comments ON/OFF >> Turn feature On/Off
Comment Posts Size >> Set the number of characters for a comment to be considered a comment post (default 400). If a comment has more than this number of characters there will be a link at the bottom of the comment going to the comment post. This is an important setting, for SEO reasons we don’t want small comments turned into post like pages, for example you don’t want a single line comment like “I agree with Bob” as a page using valuable link benefit etc…
Comment Posts Title Element Size >> Set the number of words for a comments title element (title tag) (default 12). The title element is the title from the “Comment Titles Plugin” and an excerpt from the comment. This setting is the number of words from the comments excerpt.
More Comments by Author >> Set the number of “More Comments by Author” on the Super Comments Pages (default 5). This can mix the content up a bit and link back to other posts on the site.
More Comments Excerpt Length >> Set the number of words for “More Comments by Author” excerpts on the Super Comments Pages (default 40).
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Moving comments to the top to make some pages more social
On one of my websites, I am experimenting with moving the comments from the bottom to the top of the page, under the title. This with Hovercards will help people who land on the page see it to function with a more social aspect. It could be a profile pages or even like classified ads/forum with no registration. I will have to title things right of course so people are not disoriented when they land on the page.
This combined with editing your language options from ‘Leave a reply to’ something like ‘Create your profile below” or ‘Comment title’ to ‘Profile title’ will change how people land on it use the page. It could also be something like ‘Leave your classified ad’ or ‘dating profile’ whatever you structure the site will be like.
The text rich content of the post will still be below, and with good copy it will hopefully attract some traffic. This will help mitigate the issue of on social sites and dating sites you have 1000s of profiles with pages that do little or have a negative SEO impact.
If your site page was about ‘meeting people in London who like Tattoos’ then you could write about London tatto culture or something. Above would be the comment stream with Hovercards of people who are into this and they would have a Gravatar profile or at least a comment rich in content.
Just and idea could be another site that does not work but if I design it right, it would do something.
I can organize these posts anyway that makes logical sense and searchable, even like a classified ads layout.
This is just an experiment. Certain pages will run this type of template, others will take a standard Post them comment style.
The problem is when I move this code:
Above to where the content is, it works but the comment box extends out too far to the right. I think it is a simple css or div thing I am missing. I tried to troubleshoot this a little but am rusty. If you have an idea where to drop this so it does not mess up my nice neat comment alignment and keep it from overlapping with the sidebar, it would be appreciated.
Maybe it would be easier for me to just create profile pages but these Hovercards look so good and it would be a unique way to use WP.
Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress SEO Plugin
WordPress Comment Form Above Main Content
I think I know the issue, if you are adding the comment code below the date of the post code you have moved it inside the div with id=”post-entry” which will mess with the padding, so yes a CSS issue.
You could edit the CSS, but an easy fix would be to close the post-entry div add the comment code and reopen the div right after it which would mean the #post-entry CSS won’t affect the comment code.
This will break HTML validation as you aren’t suppossed to use an id twice (all ids are suppossed to be unique), not aware of any real issues with using an id twice (browsers are smart enough to cope with it) so I’d use it for a quick fix.
Below the code:
edit_post_link('Edit', '| ', ''); ?></div>Add this
</div><?php if (comments_open()): ?>
<?php if (function_exists('wp_list_comments')): ?>
<?php comments_template('', true); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<div id="post-entry">
This will result in two comment forms, so delete the corresponding code lower down the page between the if and endif.
There’s the page-example.php file for creating this type of page template and with the Stallion 7.0 Page templates work with blog Posts as well, so you won’t have to limit this type of page to static Pages only.
BTW not sure if you tried to add code to your comment, if you did it would be stripped if you didn’t surround it with code tags (an opening and closing code tag set).
An interesting idea, I saw a plugin (or code snippet, forget which) that strips the content from multiple page commented posts. The main post (page 1) shows the full content on the post and the comments for that page, comment page 2, 3, 4 etc… only shows the comments for pages 2, 3, 4 etc… which means there’s less duplicate content generated by having multiple page comments. WordPress core (and Stallion) adds a canonical URL to pages 2, 3, 4 etc… to the main page so Google etc… considers all of the comment pages as the main page. I was thinking removing the content od comment pages 2, 3, 4 etc… would be a bit like a forum output with page 1 describing what the thread is about. Plan to add the code to Stallion as an option.
David
Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress SEO Plugin
More traffic with V7
I disabled the “popular” All In One SEO plugin and installed stallion-all-in-one-seo-plugin. After I noticed that I lost the very useful Description field of All In One SEO I reactivated this plugin again. Now I have both yours and the one with the description field activated. Will I still have the benefits of the stallion-all-in-one-seo-plugin?
Why would your Theme V7 generate a lot of traffic for my sites? If it does I would get it right away.
Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress SEO Plugin
All In One SEO Plugin vs Stallion SEO Plugin vs Stallion SEO Theme
The Stallion SEO plugin only does one thing, adds cannoical URLs to some types of archives. I created it as a replacement for the noindex and nofollow settings of WordPress SEO plugins (that’s all it does).
The All In One SEO Plugin doesn’t have the above feature and it’s equivleent (noindex/noarchive) are SEO damaging, both plugins can be used at the same time, if you use the Stallion plugin don’t use any of the damaging noindex settings as they are a replacement for them.
The Stallion SEO theme does so much more than the All In One SEO Plugin, the Stallion theme does everything the All In One SEO plugin does as a small part of the built in Stallion SEO features. The All In One part of Stallion is probably less than 10% of the overall built in SEO.
Want an analogy, the Stallion theme is like a full body suit of armour and a shield, the All In One SEO Plugin in comparison is the shield, potentially useful, but no where near as good.
Can’t make any guarantees your traffic will multiply or anything like that, on most sites that don’t have a penalty it will increase traffic. Lots of people report significant traffic increases.
There’s a 60 day Clickbank refund option, try it out and if you don’t find it works get a refund.
David
Stallion SEO Super Comments WordPress SEO Plugin
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