Disqus Comments Getting Indexed..

Anyone that does blog comments, have you noticed if your Disqus comments are getting indexed. They're nice because most are auto-approve just not sure they're getting indexed.. Anyone have luck with them?

This was discussed briefly in another thread yesterday. There are various types of Disqus comments out there in the wild and some of them include the comments as html with proper links and some of them print the comments using javascript (which presumably doesn't get indexed).

Of the javascript comments, some of them will print a comment without links when javascript is disabled, and others will print nothing at all.

You would need to parse each Disqus comment site you wanted to spam to see which type of links were used.

How do I parse each comment to see if it's working?

The easiest way I can think of off the top of my head is:

* Fetch a few pages from each Disqus site you want to spam using a bot that doesn't execute javascript (eg. using curl).
* Extract the links below the start of the Disqus comment area.
* If there are links to external sites you could assume that that Disqus installation printed straight html links from comments (wouldn't be 100% foolproof, obviously - there could be links in the footer etc).

It would be an quick custom scripting job for a semi competent coder.

If you search my posts there were a couple from yesterday about Disqus and why it's possibly not a good idea to spam them.