Is Cloudflare bad for SEO

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Banjuo

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I remember my site started going up after I took it off cloudflare. I needed CF at the moment so i did put it back on CF after a while and it stopped going up, and went down.
Above statement is just my experience so i may be wrong.... but I had only poor SEO experiences with CF


Does using Cloudflare hurt my SEO? The short answer is, no. When asked whether or not Cloudflare can damage search rankings, John Mueller from Google stated CDNs can work great for both users and search engines when properly configured.
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CF's quote about it. BUT CDN is just a different hosting for your images IIRC. Meanwhile in cloudflare youre pointing your website to different IP servers. Thats different isnt it.

By the way, found this article https://serverguy.com/case-study/cloudflare-seo/
you can ignore it and just look at comments
lot of people literally say they removed CF and rankings started growing again
 
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Cloudflare is an IP (Internet Protocol) blacklist service. Their purpose is to hide websites from prying eyes by redirecting traffic through one of their private servers. There are huge positives to using Cloudflare - one being it's free (and with a free trial), though there are some cons.

Right now, Cloudflare doesn't host any original content. Cloudflare only hosts static content, so your site will be hosted by whoever hosts your domain.
For SEO purposes, this can be good or bad. If Cloudflare hosts all your content, then Google won't see any of your original content. This is why it's a good idea to host at least some of your own content on your server.
You can also use Cloudflare to speed your site up. Cloudflare servers are extremely fast, and will increase loading speeds substantially.
 
No. I use CF on all of my websites and have for about a decade. They rank just fine.
 
No, there shouldn't be any negative effects for seo
 
Banjuo said:
I had only poor SEO experiences with CF
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Doesn't make sense to me. I've used CF for ages and never had an issue ranking.
Unless you break your site with the rocket loader or other incompatible features and drive users away, I can't see how CF could hurt SEO.
 
I be not so sure with using cdn services.
look million people workdwide uses free CF and the CF nameservers (IP) who will hiding your origin ip.
So what will big G doing? They will rank the CF ip higher than your origin ip since it's masked ?


The other thing when using a cdn;
some needing change your nameservers, others needs cname record point to their cdn url.
Is both of these methods not something like the same: you mask/ pointing your origin url to them ?

Means: that has a negativ seo affect on your origin url? Google will rank the cdn nameservers or the cdn url (cname record ) over my origin url?
For me, my brain, it looks like this.

It's not a solution lost my origin url seo to a cdn url (cname) or change the registrar nameservers which will break all my ssl, dnssec and dns records (stops working).

Example: cdnsun, here you can make setting enable or disable blocking crawler. So what means this?
Will this blocking the cdn url from crawling or my origin url ? SEO affect on this? Enable it or not ??? (ask as a tech noob...)

Complicated technical words many people (tech noobs like me) , will not understand.
What a sunday.....

Happy Sunday
 
We have been using CF for years for multiple heavy traffic websites and even make use of their Edge network (Premium). So far so good. The only trouble we have is with the rocket loader that seems to need a update. Google Lighthouse gives a warning on this script but it also does on all the Adsense scripts...
 
Cloudflare improve your website speed and cloudflare one of the best CDN
 
please for me, not recommend this CF thing, you will loose seo strength when you host all your content and images on CF ip and cdn url.....
Maybe using CF with www domain cname record instead of changing nameserver ?
 
no event cloudflare increase your page speed its help for SEO
 
It should not negatively impact your ranking in any way shape or form. If you are seeing the speed increase from it it will most likely be a positive effect on your rankings. Google no longer uses IPs so it's fine. to have a reverse proxy in front like CloudFlare. If you like it and think it's fine to help move the site, by all means, try it out.

It will only have a negative impact on your rankings if you do something that's almost impossible in block Google Bot with your firewall which is not going to happen unless you really start getting technical with the WAF, in other words, don't worry about it

Sincerely!
 
Webbers Live;

it's not the increasing of speed with CF, it is how the cdn url looks like.
The cdn url should always be with your own domain not with the cdn domain .
In CF this is not possible in free plan to use your own cname www domain for the cdn.
And so with this the cdn url will rank (correct me if I wrong) you can read on many seo forums, that people lost their seo rankings with the free CF.
 
Marco69 said:
Webbers Live;

it's not the increasing of speed with CF, it is how the cdn url looks like.
The cdn url should always be with your own domain not with the cdn domain .
In CF this is not possible in free plan to use your own cname www domain for the cdn.
And so with this the cdn url will rank (correct me if I wrong) you can read on many seo forums, that people lost their seo rankings with the free CF.
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Yes creating a subdomain for your CF CDN is the way to go. Don't use the free versions because it will devistate your ranking. Create a sudomain like cdn.yourdomain.com.
 
I know some people love cloud flare but for me it has brought me nothing but negative impacts on traffic. Not sure if it’s something to do with using there free tier
 
I have read that to prevent lose seo rankings, it is best using cloudflare with private ip and own custom sll cert.
Sounds complicated tech.

Anyone here has experience with this set up? Is a private ip the same as a dedicated ip?

Have happy weekend
 
all top websites are using Cloudflare or other DDNS protection service (from AWS, azure, etc).
so no, it doesn't hurt SEO.
 
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