I don’t understand your surprise? As long as comments appear on a page they will get indexed, or did I miss an announcement saying that Google can now differentiate article content and comments? Sure they may give links in that section less weight, but comments are part of the page so they should get indexed.

I’ve also read somewhere that it is good to comment early so that Google assumes your comments belong to the article content – I gess it’s too late now

If I think that there is something valuable I have to write on my blog, I write it. If I don’t have anything valuable to communicate, I don’t post anything. If there are stupid people out there (or not educated) who think that $1+$1=$3, I won’t feel the necessity of wasting my time and writing an article on my blog. But that’s me …

2)”‘SE index the whole page or nothing’, that is true to a point.”

Really? Do you really believe that the SE bots index 85.99% or 46.37% of a page they visit? That’s a funny idea. They don’t index it or they index it. Full stop. Of course that after the SE indexed a page, if you make changes, the new content is not indexed until the bot comes back again. But that’s like 1+1=2 and it does NOT mean that the bot indexed less than the whole page. The bot indexed the whole page available at the moment of its visit.

3) “we’re referring to the URL the commenters are leaving in the link field”

Well, you’re wrong if you think that I can guess what is in your mind. I commented on what was written on your blog. And what was written is NOT about that link but about BLOG COMMENTS. See your title and the rest (“I’m going to prove that Google does index some BLOG COMMENTS”). What I’m writing now is a comment. The link that will be added to my comment is NOT a comment. That’s why I told you that there is no connection between do-follow and comments indexing. Under such circumstances, maybe now you will understand my previous comments.

4) “The no-follow attribute does not stop a link from being followed or indexed”.

a) I never claimed that the no-follow attribute stop a link from being indexed. Can you point the phrase where you seen that I claimed that? If you re-read my comments you’ll see that I pointed that “A link that is no-follow tells search engines not to follow that link and that’s all” and then I emphasized the idea that “not to follow” does NOT mean “not to index”. Crystal clear!

b) In my previous comments I said that “If the links are nofollow, then the spider will not follow the links (some spiders actually still do it)”. In your comment quoted above you’re talking about Google when you claim that “The no-follow attribute does not stop a link from being followed”. That’s NOT true. Click on the link I provided in my previous comment. Maybe you’re confusing “indexing” with “following”. Or … Actually I don’t know what you had in mind when you claimed that. Fact is that if you want to know how Google does something, you’d better read what Google says about that.

This is and the previous one was … an honest opinion.

What’s hard to understand? The do-follow debate, among bloggers anyway, has a lot to do with comments. A couple have said the issue is irrelevant because comments are not indexed anyway. I’m just posting on a related topic rather than repeating what everyone else is writing about.

As far as ‘SE index the whole page or nothing’, that is true to a point. Some things can stop or get in the way of the bots but that has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. As far as the comments are text and not links, well, I’m just going to be nice and say, WTF are you talking about lol ~ joking

Of course comments are text, we’re referring to the URL the commenters are leaving in the link field that will go with the comment. The question was, do the SEs come back and spider again and again indexing comments like this one. It looks like, at least in this case, they do.

One more thing, just so you don’t think I’m brand new at this and to make myself sound smart The no-follow attribute does not stop a link from being followed or indexed. Notice I said ‘link’, not text. All that tag says is, “Hey Google (yes, it is mostly Google, Yahoo ignores the tag) I don’t want to pass on my good reputation to this link, I do not vouch for it”.

As usual, I can count on you for an honest opinion Thanks for that.