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Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by toast0 on Friday December 28, 2012 @12:27AM (#4976570)
If the comments load in after the page loads, crawlers are unlikely to see them, so you're not getting much SEO benefit.

Worst case is off-topic comments that take time to remove, significantly worse than nobody using it.

Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by rapind on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:45PM (#4987237)
They actually have a deal with google where all of their comments are directly indexed and attributed to the sites (likely similar to canonical references).

It used to be a problem a couple years ago, and sites would then use the API to load in comments and include them server-side. Obviously this wasn't ideal, but it's a solved problem now.

Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita... by AlexMuir on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:18AM (#4976972)
Google definitely indexes disqus comments.