New and Improved Disqus Handles My Concerns

disqus-newlogo Back in May, I posted my opinion of Disqus and stated quite clearly that I thought it was a stupid move. The main reason for that was that your comments were now stored somewhere else and gave you no search engine love. Several bloggers told me I was being myopic (more or less), but then my point was made even more clear when the Disqus site went offline for a few hours in June.

Since then, I elected to switch this blog to Disqus, but have still not made the move for my larger site because of my concerns.

Today, Disqus has thrown everybody a very big bone. The new, 2.0 version of the plug-in does a number of important things:

  • Makes comments indexable by search engines
  • Allows export and import of comments
  • Automatically syncs your Disqus comments with your WordPress database so that you can revert back to WP comments at any time and not lose anything
  • Administer your comments from inside WP

I’m going to need to upgrade, because it looks like this update addresses every one of my concerns.

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  1. Looks a lot like wordpress, Which I guess is a good thing since that has become the gold standard in blogging.

  2. Looks a lot like wordpress, Which I guess is a good thing since that has become the gold standard in blogging.

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  5. David –
    I know this is an old post, but thought I'd jump on it anyway . . . Did you ever move your larger site over to Disqus? Also, would you happen to know whether when a comment is moderated on Disqus, the wordpress version is also moderated in your DB? I ask only because it would be unfortunate to move to Disqus, use it for a while (moderating spam and garbage posts along the way), and remove it, only to have to re-moderate all those comments all over again.

    Thoughts?

  6. would you happen to know whether when a comment is moderated on Disqus, the wordpress version is also moderated in your DB?

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  8. This post came up #9 on my Google search trying to figure out why Disqus is driving my comment links back to Disqus instead of my website. Not really happy about that, and haven’t found anything on the Disqus site for changing that behavior.

    I like that Disqus separates the commenting from the blog, and ultimately allows us commentors to (more or less) own our comments (vice the blog owner owning them). But I would pay a reasonable fee to have Disqus point traffic back my website, instead of back to Disqus.

    Time to do more digging.

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  16. great.. thanks for the updation… 

  17. yes it is my concern also

  18. does it works on plain html website ?

  19. yeah..disqus..best commenting platform

  20. Hi,
     I’d like to know how to get the most commented wordpress post with
    Disqus but I can’t find anything about that… Any idea?      

  21. HI,
    That is really informative article. Disqus is the most effective and useful commenting system and almost used for seo point of view. Keep writing continue.I like it.

  22. Ya!I am totally agree with this sharing.I have to import a blog with haloscan comments before the summer is over, so if nobody creates a tool to modify the importer, I’ll write one myself.

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  24. Hi,
    I think Disqus is nice comments system, but realisation for wordpress does not support dofollow commentators links. 

  25. Ya!I will try to use this feedback for my blog.
    I have to import a blog with haloscan comments before the summer is over.

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  30. Disqus has becoming one of the prestigious sites today.U have made some of the best points on it which clearly  show the importance of the Disqus

  31. This is the third review of disqus I’ve read tonight that says it is
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  38. Hello friend!!
    Note that disqus has special code just for wp and others. Best to go to their site and follow instruction there, or did you already done that and got problem and found my page? 

  39. You’re right. Like it should. I’m actually impressed with disqus now, they’re doing some major strides in improving their commenting system.

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