Hi.
14 days ago, I suffered a massive attack on my website, and I decided to implement Cloudflare after 24 hours of having the website down.
Webpages seem to work ok right now. However, I’ve been suffering a daily drop of my Google Organic Search, cummulated 20% since I did the Cloudflare implementation.
These are the suspicions I’m having:
- DNS Server Misconfiguration or a Googleblot crawl issue. The Googlebot activity passed from an average of 100,000 pages/day to 400,000+ pages/day in the last few days. The time spent downloading a page passed from 185 msec to 250 msec. I’ve just limited the crawl rate through the ‘Search Console’
- I’m receiving ramdom daily alerts of 5XX errors which I didn’t have some weeks ago. They are absolutely valid pages, and I have to “Validate Fix” in the Google ‘Search Console’. May be Google considering my website is not relevant now due to such 5XX errors?
- Can this be an issue of SSL certificates? I had my own SSL certificate (created throuh Let’s Encrypt), and I changed them by a new SSL certificate issued by Cloudflare. Google may be considering there is a conflict between the two certificates.
The number of valid pages and excluded pages keep similar levels.
Any tip or similar experience is welcome. Thank you very much.