Facebook Comments Appear In Google Search Indices
Text from comments on Facebook pages now shows up in Google's indices.
Text from comments on Facebook pages now appears in Google‘s search indices.
As initially reported by Digital Inspiration, comments made via systems such as Disqus, Facebook Comments, and Intense Debate were not being picked up by Google, as search engines could not read text within iFrame coding.
ZDNet’s Friending Facebook added that the same applied to commenting engines that ran on AJAX.
According to Digital Inspiration, Googlebots, which crawl webpages, are now treating text in Facebook comments like any other text, including it in indices and thus making it searchable.
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