SOLVED: Canonical tags hurting SEO?
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@NodeHam said in Canonical tags hurting SEO:
BTW, Bing mentions something called IndexNow for Wordpress. Is this something that NodeBB could benefit from?
IndexNow is a rapid indexing method where Cloudflare will push updates into Bing for example when something changes, which speeds the rate at which sites are indexed. It's a newer version of the RPC ping that WordPress used to issue as soon as content changed.
By default, NodeBB will already be able to access this if you are using CF and Bing.
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@NodeHam said in Canonical tags hurting SEO:
I'm not using CF for these forums, we don't have enough traffic to require a CND.
CF is much less of a CDN than traditional providers such as KeyCDN etc as it doesn't cache HTML by default. I think people use it (I'm not one) more these days for it's security enhancements, DDoS protection (which to be honest, on the free plan isn't great) etc.
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True though they do offer and call themselves a CDN.
We've used the paid plan to cache certain things and do some testing. I seem to recall having the ability to specify what you'd like to cache or not.We've got colocated hardware in a data center with excessive bandwidth and no overloaded rented/shared servers.
For us, on some Wordpress sites, it's more cost effective to buy something like the rocket cache plugin and pay once per year than to pay the monthly cost for CF.For some renting oversold vps for example, CF might be a good solution.
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@NodeHam said in Canonical tags hurting SEO:
For some renting oversold vps for example, CF might be a good solution.
Provided you do not mind all of your traffic spooling through a single entity then onto your host. Not great for privacy
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@phenomlab If you use a security certificate on your server and not due to cloudflare, and allow access to the website only via HTTPS, does this not prevent decryption of the data?
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@josef it does, yes - provided you use a trusted certificate body to do. Several people make the same mistake of having a self signed cert on their host and hiding behind the Cloudflare provided cert for security.
This isn't the most secure method and your can't make use of strict mode either to completely secure the channel.
The point of the https protocol is to encrypt by default, although there are numerous strengths, with the minimum accepted standard of 2048 bits.
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I had a similar problem, Google didn't index my forum due to a canonical link error.
The reason was that in CF I made several A entries for domain names 1.example.com and 2.example.com leading to my forum, somehow Google found out about the second 2.example.com domain and started indexing it along with the main 1.example.com domain, the result of this indexing did not please me.
I removed the A record for the second 2.example.com domain and create redirected from domain 2 to domain 1 instead.
Next, Isent a request to re-index the domain 1 and a week later Google showed the correct results.
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SEO is the single most important reason in how we decide on which forums to use.
Still getting warnings about the same thing and I'm updated to the latest. I'm looking for urls that bing is complaining about but it's not listing any.
This is what the dashboard looks like right now;
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Big companies like that do not usually respond to anything. The only hope would be to post in some bing forums but I'm not knowledgeable enough to express what I'm seeing. I only know that we don't seem to be well indexed by Bing and especially by Google which is hugely more important.
I don't have any other fixes for this so maybe someone with more SEO knowledge can chime in. Does bing provide a list of urls that have this issue?