Cloudflare - Issue

[FutureHunter]

In November I hired local SEO Specialist for one month for my website.
Website is 5 years old and I had 3k visitors per day, my main traffic source was Pinterest.

After He started working on my website I got Shadow ban from Pinterest and Traffic dropped from 3k to 1k.

He added my website on this Cloudflare account and today I figured It.
I contacted him and he gave me account Cloudflare account where he added my website.

I was checking everything and I found something.

Top Crawlers / Bots​

0 Pages crawled on Pinterest, Is It the main reason why my traffic dropped from 3k to 1k and my traffic from Pinterest is almost 100-200 per day ? Can someone help me?

 

[MuayThai]

Conclusion: never hire a local SEO Specialist.

ps Please explain what kind of help are you looking for?

 

[FutureHunter]

Conclusion: never hire a local SEO Specialist.

ps Please explain what kind of help are you looking for?

Check screenshot. Pinterest should not be in Crawler / Bots section ?

 

[MuayThai]

Check screenshot. Pinterest should not be in Crawler / Bots section ?

AFAIK, Pinterest is not a crawler

 

[FutureHunter]

I’m trying to find why I’m shadow banned on Pinterest.

As I checked dates, traffic dropped down after he added website on Cloudflare… sometimes Does It has a bad effect ?

 

[~OO~]

Adding a web-site on Cloudflare is neither good nor bad.

 

[MuayThai]

I’m trying to find why I’m shadow banned on Pinterest.

Really, I don't know.
But your screenshot above is completely useless in this investigation.

 

[FutureHunter]

I’m learning SEO and I want to find why I’m shadow banned on pinterest.

I created 50 profile backlinks in 2 weeks before I banned but website is 6 years old and I had more than 7000 natural backlinks.

What happens in Google/Pinterest after website is restricted ?

 

[FutureHunter]

Really, I don't know.
But your screenshot above is completely useless in this investigation.

What screenshots do you want me to send for investigation ? I know It will be hard from screenshots but let’s try!

 

[hwaback]

CF sometimes blocks GoogleBots, too. You have to set the rules manually to prevent it.
I think CF is not good for google seo. Many people have experienced a drop in the rankings.

Some idiots talk about big companies that are okay to use CF, but they don't seem to know that Google doesn't see all sites as equal.

 

[hwaback]

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/pinterest-crawlers-are-being-blocked/228955/6
You'd better ask a question here.

 

[Imran_Saleem]

look for freelancer with good reviews

 

[dandan594594]

Cloudflare now hosts your images, not your original solution. They may have also altered the size, file type or dimensions to speed up loading. Pinterest's algorithm likes images being trackable directly on the page linked to. Now your images are seen to be either in a different place, or are not classed as the original image shared.

You could wait and see if Pinterest automatically makes this new connection, ditch cloudflare, or stop them from displaying your images.

 

[mogilevcev]

Cloudflare now hosts your images, not your original solution.

It depends on settings. To understand, wWe need to see the cache settings at least.
Anyway, I would suggest switch back from CloudFlare and check the effect.

 

[TZ2011]

Cloudflare now hosts your images, not your original solution. They may have also altered the size, file type or dimensions to speed up loading. Pinterest's algorithm likes images being trackable directly on the page linked to. Now your images are seen to be either in a different place, or are not classed as the original image shared.

You could wait and see if Pinterest automatically makes this new connection, ditch cloudflare, or stop them from displaying your images.

This is not true. They don't resize images, change filetype or whatever. They just cache files on their servers and serve cached files to visitor from the closest server. Also links are always shown directly to website; click on any image or hover over image checking link in the down left corner and you'll always see original site.

OP - shadowban (if that is the problem) doesn't necessarily need to be related to the cloudflare. It may be coincidence, happened around same time.
- Pinterest is crawler, how exactly you think they are checking images and source sites? Bots and crawlers are different things. User-agents of pinterest are Pinterest and Pinterestbot, check server logs are they visiting your site, or check google analytics for referral traffic.
- To check for shadowban visit Pinterest from another device, another IP address / location and search for your content. If is coming up, it's not shadowban.
- check your robots.txt and .htaccess if something is blocked.

 

[FutureHunter]

I will share screenshots from Analytics + Cloudflare.

Traffic dropped after 10 days from I hired local SEO Specialist. It was end of the November.

After 3 months Still waiting to get back Pinterest Traffic.


October

January

- Pinterest is crawler, how exactly you think they are checking images and source sites? Bots and crawlers are different things. User-agents of pinterest are Pinterest and Pinterestbot, check server logs are they visiting your site, or check google analytics for referral traffic.
- To check for shadowban visit Pinterest from another device, another IP address / location and search for your content. If is coming up, it's not shadowban.

I still have a traffic from Pinterest, you can check It in screenshots, It means I'm not shadow banned ? But suddenly I lost positions.

It depends on settings. To understand, wWe need to see the cache settings at least.
Anyway, I would suggest switch back from CloudFlare and check the effect.

3 months passed and I think now It's too late to check effect.

 

[FutureHunter]

Screenshots from Cloudflare - Cashing

Btw, 3 weeks ago I bought wp-rocket. Result is still the same.

 

[TZ2011]

Caching doesn't have anything with this. When you set it in Development Mode and clear (purge) cache all he is doing is removing current cache for several hours so you can do some work on site and see changes. Nothing relevant with links and traffic from any source.
Check robots.txt and .htaccess, or send me in pm to check it. Maybe is something blocked.
Next time ask your local seo expert to make a list of all changes so you can trace and reverse changes if something like this happens. World is full of experts and "experts", but it's your site that is losing visitors.

 

[FutureHunter]

Caching doesn't have anything with this. When you set it in Development Mode and clear (purge) cache all he is doing is removing current cache for several hours so you an do some work on site and see changes. Nothing relevant with links and traffic from any source.
Check robots.txt and .htaccess, or send me in pm to check it. Maybe is something blocked.
Next time ask your local seo expert to make a list of all changes so you can trace and reverse changes if something like this happens. World is full of experts and "experts", but it's your site that is losing visitors.

I can't start conversation with you. Can you text me and I will replay ?

 

[TZ2011]

try now