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Guys, The idea looks great. Congrats on the launch. 2 SEO questions: 1) a CDN means "thousands of websites on one IP address". Google doesn't like it UNTIL it
by jitbit 10y ago
Guys, The idea looks great. Congrats on the launch.
2 SEO questions:
1) a CDN means "thousands of websites on one IP address". Google doesn't like it UNTIL it knows, the IP belongs to a well-known CDN like cloundfront/cloudflare etc. Please comment?
2) An A/B test might look like "cloaking" to googles. How exactly do you run it? I assume, not in parallel, but "variation A then variation B" - correct? If yes, does it mean I have to leave the website UNTOUCHED for 21 days so the test results are not distorted by my other activities? (adding new content, internal links etc)
- ryanb 10y agoThanks! Great questions 1) We actually work with CloudFlare/CloudFront etc if companies are already using them. In that case, we sit in between CloudFlare and your origin webserver. But if you don't already have a CDN in front of your website, our SEO CDN goes in front of your origin webserver, and we use AWS so as far as Google is concerned it looks like AWS. We also use different IPs for every customer. 2) We don't do cloaking - we're essentially testing somewhat small tweaks across groups of similar pages, and seeing if they have any impact on clicks or rankings. It is preferred if the pages remain largely the same, but they don't have to be totally untouched.
- jitbit 10y agoThanks for the answer. PS. whoa, exciting (the 'in-between cloudflare and your server' bit)