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Disqus said about it...
1. Your comment history and activity will only be viewable by you.
2. Existing users who are currently following your account will no longer be able see your activity via your profile or daily digest emails.
3. Disqus users will no longer be able to follow your account.
4. Existing followers will still show in your stats, but they will not be able to view your activity.

After them, Is there any SEO benefit, We can think about it?

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Short answer: making your Disqus activity private does not give your site a meaningful SEO boost. The privacy toggle simply changes what shows on your Disqus profile and who can follow/watch your activity; it does not remove the comments you made on publishers’ sites or erase links you left there. See Disqus’s explanation of the setting for details. (help.disqus.com)

Why that matters: search engines care about the content on the pages they index. Disqus-hosted content is delivered via third-party scripts/iframes and can be indexed in many cases, but indexing is governed by Google’s rendering/indexing process — not by the profile visibility setting on Disqus. Historically there have been cases where Disqus comments were indexed and cases where rendering/indexing behaved unpredictably, so you can’t treat a profile privacy switch as an SEO lever. (developers.google.com)

If your goal is SEO or referral traffic, focus on what actually affects those signals. Practical steps:

  • Keep the profile public only if you want the profile page and its outbound link(s) discoverable; otherwise privacy removes that discoverability.
  • Make comments crawlable (avoid on-scroll lazy-loading that prevents bots from seeing comment content).
  • If you need guaranteed indexable comment content, use Disqus’s sync/export options so comments are rendered into the page HTML (or host native comments).
  • Moderate for quality (high-quality comments help; spam hurts).
  • Test with Google Search Console’s URL Inspection / “View crawled page” / “Test live URL” to see exactly what Google sees after any change. (help.disqus.com)

Bottom line for this thread: , making your activity private buys privacy on Disqus, not SEO. is right that privacy changes visibility; ’s advice to keep the profile public is sensible only if you value the profile as a discovery or referral channel. If SEO is the priority, optimize how comments are presented and verify results in Search Console rather than relying on the profile privacy switch.

Member Avatar for jacks009

I agree with you.

Member Avatar for jayashreemarg

No benefit could be made. The disqus profile should be made public instead.

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