[QUESTION] Using Cloudflare and it´s impact to SEO

Roger Marquez

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I am recommending to a client to set Cloudflare as it will further enhance their website´s page loading speed as well as their security and all but, I read on Reddit this:
When you use CF (caching) you share the IP with a ton of websites, so it carries a lot of baggage. Far as I know, this is just lucky, it is not matter of purchasing premium CloudFlare or whatever.
  1. Your traffic will be negatively impacted as your website exposes a CF IP. This mostly concerns SEO driven traffic.
  2. Your emails (newsletters, transactional, whatever) will likely reach more spam if the email comes from a CF cached website or if in the mail you link to that CF website.
Thoughts?
 
I would be more concerned about IP reputation when it comes to using cheap shared hosting, especially something advertised as "offshore". CF IP pool is huge and around 20% of all websites use it nowadays. Would be a bit too far fetched even from Big G to punish all of them just because of a few bad apples.
 
You can check which websites use the same (Cloudflare-) IP address.
I.e. here:

https://2ip.io/domain-list-by-ip/
If your neighborhood is too bad, consider creating a new Cloudflare account (which leads to a new IP address).
 
You can check which websites use the same (Cloudflare-) IP address.
I.e. here:

https://2ip.io/domain-list-by-ip/
If your neighborhood is too bad, consider creating a new Cloudflare account (which leads to a new IP address).

Creating a new Cloudflare account will not give you a new IP address. You don't get any IP addresses from Cloudflare on a free account.

You may wish to take a look at how Cloudflare exactly works:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/concepts/how-cloudflare-works/https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/concepts/cloudflare-ip-addresses/
 
Creating a new Cloudflare account will not give you a new IP address. You don't get any IP addresses from Cloudflare on a free account.

You may wish to take a look at how Cloudflare exactly works:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/concepts/how-cloudflare-works/https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/concepts/cloudflare-ip-addresses/

okay, but when I do nslookup <mydomainname>, it returns the same 2 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 addresses since years, on a free cloudflare account.

We're talking about the IP addresses shown to the visitors/Google, don't we?
 
Both statements are false.
 
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