Block comments from search engine indexing

March 16, 20233 Views

I remember there used to be an option on WordPress to block comments from search engine indexing. I can’t find it anywhere, though.

Does anyone have suggestions or alternatives? Thanks.

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Anonymous says:

March 16, 2023 at 9:59 pm
To my knowledge, there is no easy way to achieve what you want. What I think you would need to do is two parts:
1. Detect page views by search engine spiders
2. In your page templates, only include include the comments when the viewer is not a search engine spider. Should be straightforward, but not trivial.
Good luck!
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Anonymous says:

March 16, 2023 at 9:59 pm

Normally comments are part of the page (for content they belong to) and I don’t think there are any conventions to block certain part of page from indexing.

At best you would need to separate comments to reside at separate URL from content and block indexing of such URLs via normal means (like robots.txt or meta tags).

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