Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan

All you have to do is either Once you do this, cloudflare becomes DNS server routing all your traffic to the host ip address. Before you do that remember your SSL installed at the local server must be working properly. You dont need to change name server records. After you do this, Cloudflare services such…

Cloudflare could cause drop in Google SERPS positions if there is incorrect host configuration. Technically the traffic passes through the proxy (filtered by several layers and firewall rules). Infact cloudflare can influence rankings. For many small sites you dont even need cloudflare. Google has said speed is not everything. A decade ago, a web connection…

Quite often you get plugin error when renewing your ssl using certbot in amazon lightsail (bitnami) Here is the error Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing…Could not choose appropriate plugin: The manual plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.The error was: PluginError(‘An authentication script must be provided with –manual-auth-hook when…

A simple sed command to remove string and numbers wrapped inside brackets [ ] to cleanup your text or csv data. For example occurrences such as [1123] and [apples] will be removed by this command. This command takes input and creates a cleaned file

Cloudflare handles 301 redirects super easy on the top layer. Lately we encountered unique problem of removing amp pages and doing 301 direct of all canonical URLs. We received proper canonical tag warnings in google because of this and hurt our rankings. Cloudflare did it on the fly. No requirement to use plugins that overload…

Enabling bot fight mode may hurt your SEO and ability to get new links, also discovery if crawled by unknown bots. Be careful how you use it. In my case i found it hurt my organic rankings after enabling it for a year. You are better off disabling this option in cloudflare. If you are…