Facebook comments and seo

[FranckNlemba]

hi everyone

i wondered if googlebot explores facebook comments and if not, what are the seo benefits of facebook comments module?

As you can see below, techcrunch has added facebook comments in pages

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/facebook-iphone-event-check-ins

So is it useful for SEO purposes?

[seomasterbrasil]

Hello,

could you say what the name of that plugin?

[flowsimple]

I had the exact same question, and found a Wordpress plugin that makes Facebook comments readable.

[CPU]

It may be that using this add on has some benefits within Facebook search which is currently pretty patchy in my experience.

[FranckNlemba]

my technical team, also thinks that comments are not viewable when googlebot explores the website...

so if everybody thinks so, that means it isn't necessary for seo purposes to use the new facebook comments plugin na?

[Marcus_Miller]

Hmmm, interesting, ill have a play. Cheers Lewis.

[CPU]

Facebook comments are locatable within Facebook but all testing I have seen/done has shown that they are not viewable via Google.

You can check by searching for a facebook comment you have made using site:facebook.com so it only returns results from the Facebook domain.

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey Franck

I am completely lost when it comes to facebook. Twitter I can understand, it's all public (or most of it, unless you opt out) but facebook activity is mostly private. I am guessing that this mainly relates to public facebook pages and the like but I still don't understand how facebook shares impact SEO and had been meaning to post that very question.

Anyone got the 5 minute skinny on this?

Marcus