Exclude the word comment from being referenced

Question

Lately i m trying improve my SEO, and i found in Google Webmaster Tools that the mains keywords are 'Comment' & 'Read more' it s a bit frustrating. How can I say to the search egine dont reference that words!

Website

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

I found a solution to add rel="nofollow" to comments. My theme maker gave me this hack that you can add in functions.php (no guarantee it will work for everyone, might depend on your theme):

function add_nofollow_to_comments_popup_link() {
    return ' rel="nofollow" ';
}
add_filter( 'comments_popup_link_attributes', 'add_nofollow_to_comments_popup_link' );

Answer 2

If google is showing that, then you should consider getting a solid SEO plugin (or edit your theme) and do the following:

• Add proper meta titles
• Add proper meta keywords
• Add proper meta descriptions
• Make sure you have real content in your posts

Beyond that, you should check googles webmaster tools to see if you can exclude certain phrases. If the top words on your site are comment and read more, then you most likely just need to clean up your SEO ... but adding proper meta tags to your posts and pages.

Adding in a good sitemap wouldn't hurt either.

As long as you do the above, wordpress sites show up very well unless the theme creator didn't know what they are doing, which is not uncommon.

Looking at your site, most of your comments have the word comments in the link itself. Tweak the theme to add rel="nofollow" on those links. Do the same for all of the links labeled Read More on the site.

Since you already have the titles properly linked for your articles, that will tell search engines like google that the content of the target is that which it reads from the title, and not that which it reads from the comments and read more links.

That should help remedy the problem you are seeing, but you might want to read up a bit more on rel="nofollow" and how to use it properly in links.