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What's the SEO impact with CloudFlare?

Isn't that a potential massive conflict of interest if Google is reducing the SEO ranking of sites hosted on their competitors' platforms?

If so, yet again, I can't wait for the US DOJ and FTC to just rain hell on these people.

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Maybe at some point there were crawlers that assigned spam reputation on a per-IP basis, but so much of the internet these days goes through Cloudflare and other CDNs with shared IP ranges that it would be insane to keep this practice up.

Maybe 2-3 years ago. Pretty sure it was IP based. CF drops you on a shared IP, its hit and miss of you end up on an IP next to a bunch of dodgy sites or not, do a reverse IP lookup to find out what else is running on your IP.

> It would be insane to keep this practice up.

What's the alternative?

Oh yea, did CF ever fix the domain hijacking issue for deleted sites?

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