Word on the Schipul SEM gossip street is that Facebook comments are being indexed by Google, which means BAM! More SEO love for your site — if you’re using the XFBML implementation.
A recent post on SearchEngineLand.com explains how at one point add-on commenting systems made it difficult for search engines to index content on sites. But now that Facebook comments are being crawled by Google, things are changing.
Apparently, the XFBML type comments are specifically the ones being crawled. That means it’s in your favor to add the Facebook Comment s social plug-in to your site. (Yes, I feel like we’re feeding the Facebook monster here…but…eh…whatchagonnado? (._.)/) Here’s how to add the plug-in:
1. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/ and select Get Code:
2. Select the XFBML version of the code and copy it.
3. Go to your site and add the code just below the first <body> tag. (This is in the index template of your site. If you have a Tendenci site, contact support if you need help with this.)
4. Select the line of code on the last line and place the line of code for the plug-in on the page where you’d like it to appear:
This should add the FB Comments social plug-in to your site. Of course it will vary across browsers, so be sure you follow the proper steps for the browser most of your site visitors use to access your content.