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2022-08-12
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to help give crawlers hints about when they should recrawl, if new content has been added, or if content on a site has recently changed...
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2022-07-08
Automatic Signed Exchanges may dramatically boost your site visitor numbers...
2021-12-16
Cloudflare Is reducing the environmental impact of web searches with 20+ billions crawler hints delivered so far. This blog describes the technical solution of how we built the Crawler Hints system that makes all this possible. ...
2021-10-27
We're excited to announce that Pages now natively supports custom headers on your projects! Simply create a _headers file in the build directory of your project and within it, define the rules you want to apply....
2021-10-18
Crawler Hints now supports IndexNow, a new protocol that allows websites to notify search engines whenever content on their website content is created, updated, or deleted. ...
November 19, 2020 10:38 PM
Making things fast is one of the things we do at Cloudflare. More responsive websites, apps, APIs, and networks directly translate into improved conversion and user experience. ...
March 07, 2019 4:05 PM
With this post we illustrate the potential applications of Cloudflare Workers in relation to search engine optimization, which is more commonly referred to as ‘SEO’ using our research and testing over the past year making Sloth....
February 15, 2019 5:09 PM
In Part 1, the merits and tradeoffs of subdirectories and subdomains were discussed. The subdirectory strategy is typically superior to subdomains because subdomains suffer from keyword and backlink dilution. ...
February 15, 2019 5:09 PM
Alice and Bob are budding blogger buddies who met up at a meetup and purchased some root domains to start writing. Alice bought aliceblogs.com and Bob scooped up bobtopia.com....
February 06, 2019 4:00 PM
Does page speed affect revenue? It does, and to a large degree. Learn why Cloudflare is the most effective when it comes to boosting site speed and performance....
August 21, 2018 5:56 PM
Redirection.io is a Web traffic redirection manager. It provides a collection of tools for website administrators, SEO agencies, and developers, which help analyze HTTP errors, setup HTTP redirections, customize HTTP responses, and monitor the traffic efficiently....
January 28, 2018 3:00 PM
For some businesses SEO is a bad word, and for good reason. Google and other search engines keep their algorithms a well-guarded secret making SEO implementation not unlike playing a game where the referee won’t tell you all the rules. ...
October 27, 2017 5:30 PM
Brady Gentile from Cloudflare's product team wrote an App Developer Playbook, embedded within the developer documentation page. ...
January 25, 2016 9:24 PM
Improving your site’s SEO is probably top of mind for you, but doing so takes a lot of hard work and the rules of the game are constantly changing....
August 06, 2014 2:00 PM
As of today, there are only about 2 million websites that support HTTPS. That's a shamefully low number. Two things are about to happen that we at CloudFlare are hopeful will begin to change that and make everyone love locks (at least on the web!)....
January 09, 2013 6:55 PM
You care about your website, and you want it to be found. For many visitors, finding your website starts with search engines. Together, Google, Bing, Baidu and others are huge sources of traffic for every website....
November 19, 2012 9:26 PM
We get a lot of questions from our customers about CloudFlare and how we impact SEO. So when SEO.com signed up for CloudFlare, I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to an expert to get the scoop on all things SEO. ...
August 08, 2012 9:52 PM
Troy McCasland is the co founder and Vice President of Business Development at Attracta. He has been at the company since its inception, working on the executive management team and building the business....
January 16, 2012 11:50 PM
CloudFlare, as a service, illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet better. Unfortunately, some current legislation up for consideration in the United States illustrates the power of using DNS to make the Internet worse. ...
August 04, 2011 4:37 PM
One of the problems with many traditional CDNs it that they require you to rewrite the URLs of your static resources to point to a third party domain. This is problematic for two reasons: one obvious, one less obvious....
