You know, I am having “one of those days,” but this just changed everything. I must send a humble and heartfelt THANK YOU ever so much to Lance Winslow for taking the time to comment on my articles. Lance, I read your articles too but I don’t comment much. Maybe I should start! Thanks again, EzineArticles- my face is aflame from the unexpected attention. I hope other authors are getting the same rush. -Dina

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Chris, I don’t understand the rationale of this post. Does this mean that the only articles from submitting authors that you want indexed in the search engines are the articles to which various people have added comments?

If so, that would seem to defeat the purpose of authors writing articles in the first place.

Quality content is no guarantee that people will take the time to comment or even feel inclined to comment.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Dennis Mellersh

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Dennis,

I meant that we want to help the search engines to index the articles comments.

We have over 38,000 articles right now, but only about 300 with comments on them. Rather than ask the search engines to index 38,000 pages of our site that have no comments on them, we are helping them to identify the articles that HAVE comments on them.

We already provide daily updated sitemap data with every new article added… so this new thing is just aimed at increasing search engine index efficiency so that the search engine bots can zero in on the 300+ articles with comments on them to display the article comments view of each article.

Hope that clears it up…

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