Title: Why Allow Comments?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Why Allow Comments?

 *  [theinquisition](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theinquisition/)
 * (@theinquisition)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-allow-comments/)
 * Hi All,
    I was just wondering about the benefits of allowing comments. I personally
   don’t have them on my site because I felt I would prefer it to be a one-way communication
   like a book. However, I am wondering if allowing them might increase hits through
   engaging discussion and also whether there would be any further SEO benefits?
   Any opinions would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-allow-comments/#post-1400445)
 * This post was rather insightful: [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/04/a-blog-without-comments-is-not-a-blog.html](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/04/a-blog-without-comments-is-not-a-blog.html)
 * In short – You might get more traffic. I can’t say it’d improve your SEO (I doubt
   it would) but it might improve popularity.

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