Does having comments closed affect ranking in Google?

charlie3

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Pretty self-explanatory. I just created a video and I left the comments closed, meaning that no one can leave comments. Does that affect the rankings at all in Google or YouTube?

Thanks in advance!

 

AquaticGamer

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Nah.. doubt so only views and likes affect the ranking

 

kazhkaz

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How can that affect rankings? Comments just give additional content which can benefit the rankings but it doesn't somehow penalize video if you disabled them.

 

Zuuuu

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yes the fake views or with low retention and fake likes will affect your videos

 

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rbdown

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If that were true, I would be out of business. So no.

 

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Zuuuu said:

yes the fake views or with low retention and fake likes will affect your videos

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I bet you didn't even read the thread...

 

gullsinn

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No you should leave the comments open the more users will make impression on your video the more it would become famous.

 

frankweerasinghe

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I think it affect onpage SEO. Without fresh comments (content), it will hard to compete with videos having shitload of fresh comments. IMO

 

charlie3

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Thanks for the answers. It still isn't ranking even with a bunch of high PR links and bookmarks pointing towards the site. I'm thinking I may try to open the comments and see if that does anything.

 

Logician

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charlie3 said:

Thanks for the answers. It still isn't ranking even with a bunch of high PR links and bookmarks pointing towards the site. I'm thinking I may try to open the comments and see if that does anything.

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How long has it been up? It might still be too soon.

 

cryptons

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dosen't affect most of the time!

 

cryptons

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Zuuuu said:

yes the fake views or with low retention and fake likes will affect your videos

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bt he is asking about comments!

 

charlie3

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Logician said:

How long has it been up? It might still be too soon.

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It's been up since July 13, has around 30k views, and around 100 likes. Tons of high PR links, SENuke blast, and bookmarking and it isn't even in the top 200.