SOLVED: Canonical tags hurting SEO?
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Thanks so much for the quick update!
For some reason, some files / folders end up being owned by root again. I'm not sure what's causing that because I always use the nodebb user to update etc.
Anyway, it's done now. I asked Bing to re-check one of those links and now it shows as indexed. Wonderful. However, it complains about this now.
I'll try Google next.
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Some of the fixes are as simple as going to settings, posts and changing the values.
Some, not so obvious such as follow;Bing suggestions;
1 Change the description in the <meta description> tag in the page source to be between 25 and 160 characters in length.
2 Ensure that the page source does not contain large amounts of CSS or code at the top of the page. Consider moving code and styles into separate files.
3 The pages uses a meta robots tag. Review the value of the tag to see if you are not unintentionally blocking the page from being indexed (NOINDEX).
Bing seems to like the site better now but Google is still not loving it. I have to work on that next.
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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 It's a newer version of the RPC ping that WordPress used to issue as soon as content changed.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.