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Ask HN: Did Cloudflare Destroy My SEO Traffic?
I am extremely upset but I have come to the conclusion that after using cloudflare pro, my SEO traffic has disappeared. I checked to find that I didn't even show up in the search results for my own full domain name.
Prior to using cloudflare I did not have this problem. SEO traffic was good, I was seeing my site in the search results.
I am just at a loss for what to do. As much as I loved cloudflare paying $20/month for SSL, I now have growing suspicion that it was destroying my SEO traffic all this time and it actually leaves me infuriated.
How can I configure cloudflare or should I leave cloudflare altogether?
- jgrahamc 12y agoI checked to find that I didn't even show up in the search results for my own full domain name What is your domain name?
- jorgecurio 12y agois there an email address I can reach you at?
- jgrahamc 12y agoI suggest you contact CloudFlare support to help you with this.
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- colept 12y agoMy personal experience with CloudFlare is that it is best configured as a CDN for your public static front-end. Any CSS, JS, and images will see bandwidth reductions. That being said, for the back-end I've never seen improvements. If CloudFlare detects a server error, it could show a static optimized page which is great for anti-DDoS protection but the recovery on their end was significantly slower (minutes behind). It's an unnecessary layer in the protocol.
- dangrossman 12y agoLog in to Google Webmaster Tools, claim your site, and find out why it's not being indexed. Understand the problem before attempting to remedy it.
- jorgecurio 12y agoit reports no problems at all.
- jorgecurio 12y agooh god I just found this thread, sounds same as my situation. https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/moved-servers-added-cloudflare-instant-drop-in-seo-pictures.2688419/ https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/moved-servers-added-...
- iurisilvio 12y agoI don't think so. I'm using Cloudflare as a CDN for my website for 3 months now. All my traffic (~98%) is from Google and it is consistently increasing every week. It saves 20% of my bandwidth serving static resources and some of most visited pages. I don't use SSL, it is not important for my pages.
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- jorgecurio 12y agoGuys it's been resolved. I had <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> in my homepage.