Google’s John Mueller said at the 3:16 mark into a webmaster hangout from December 13, 2019 that Google does try to understand the blog comments section of a page but at the same time would still categorize that section as primary content.

We have covered many times how Google reacts to comments sections over the years and we’ve heard Google said they can help or hurt your site. But it is interesting to hear that Google considers comments as part of the primary content, unlike navigation, footer, etc but at the same time does try to understand that you do have a comments section that your staff did not actively write.

John said in the video answer “We would try to understand that these are blog comments. But essentially the these are a part of the the primary page.”

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