What is the name of the domain?
What is the issue you’re encountering
Crawled - currently not indexed increase after using Cloudflare
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
- Request Index in Google Search Console
- Buy Cloudflare PRO
- New links are hard to index.
- Old links become deindexed even if they are in the top 10 search results.
- Test Live URL in Search Console is OK.
- Turned off all security features, including bot protection.
I don’t know why “Crawled - currently not indexed” increases over time. I hope I can get a solution instead of giving up Cloudflare.
Thank everyone!
That’s don’t make sense.
Maybe the problem is with the content of your site.
I took a look at your site and it talks about a lot of things that have already been covered by other sites thousands of times.
For example, I saw a post of yours where you talk about optimizing WIndows for games by activating high performance mode (this isn’t necessarily true), game mode, updating drivers (updating drivers without thinking can lead to complications for users and make things that were working stop working) and activating the storage sensor. Several sites have already said and taught the same thing.
Google doesn’t want sites like this anymore. There are so many sites talking about the same thing that Google and other search engines are tired of it. It wants unique content.
You can teach something that is already taught on other sites, but make it your own, teach something else and make it different, so that it really adds to the reader’s knowledge and isn’t just another duplicate information that they would find on 20 different sites.
Take a look at your site and think:
- Am I teaching something innovative and that my reader will think: “I’m glad I found this site!” or am I just repeating saturated stuff that other sites have already written?
- Do I convey authority in what I say?
- If I’m going to teach my readers how to optimize Windows for games, for example, what can I teach them that is proven to work and that nobody has already taught?
Also, it’s good to include outbound links in your articles and write in first person.
And where is your about page, privacy policy, terms of use, contact page…?
Hello, thank you for your advice.
My About page, privacy policy, terms of use, and contact page are at the bottom widget.
You are right. But there are things beyond what you know.
For example:
- https://www.quora.com/Does-using-Cloudflare-affect-search-engine-rankings/answer/Sahil-Chugh-31
- https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/cloudflare-has-an-impact-on-seo.1123437/
When I disable Cloudflare, some pages are indexed again when Googlebot re-crawls them.
Sometimes, I decided to delete a post that had no index for a significant time, and I copied all the content of that post to another site (a free publish site); it indexed immediately within the day.
It’s a pity you’re facing this.
I’ve never had any problems with this. Because whenever I buy a domain for a site, I already point the dns to Cloudflare 
and I never use the hosting IPs.
Which leads me to conclude that since you didn’t use Cloudflare before, Google is turning up its nose at the DNS change. In fact, the problems you showed in the Quora and Black Hat World links refer precisely to those who moved their old DNSs to Cloudflare.
This problem would probably also happen if you changed hosts and then changed the DNS IPs pointing to your site, regardless of whether or not you use Cloudflare.
Concidentally with your case, I just finished a website I was making and put it online yesterday.. And Google indexed it in less than 2 minutes. And yes, its uses Cloudflare, its using not just the basic services but the website is on Cloudflare Pages.
So, the problem is not with Cloudflare itself, but how Google view websites that suddenly change their IPs, which honestly makes sense.
To avoid this kind of trouble, always point your DNS to Cloudflare before you even launch your site and don’t use your hosting IPs. This also prevents your site’s real IP from being exposed, because if attackers already know your site’s real IP and you haven’t taken steps to lessen the impact of this, they can attack your site directly without being caught by Cloudflare.
I believe that if you wait and stop disabling Cloudflare, there will come a time when Google will stop bothering you. You may lose traffic from search in the meantime, which is why you should always have other sources of traffic to your site and capture leads so that your readers come back when you post something new.
Cheers! 
Hmmm…I don’t think it’s as clear cut as having moved DNS to Cloudflare, but I do suspect it has something to do with it. Let’s start with the old forum threads - they’re mostly talking about the idea that a website appears to be on the same host as others and if there is a bad site on there then it could affect your reputation with Google. That was speculation at the time and AFAIK Google don’t even do that now.
I don’t think it’s a DNS issue per se as if this is how google operated then any method of load balancing traffic using IP wouldn’t work. I’m not that confident that I’d want to swap backwards and forwards a lot though. Remember your pages are likely to change each time - from the headers and stuff Cloudflare options can inject into them. Sometimes patience is the best option.
Also whilst Google Search Console is a great tool - double check it. It is often out of sync with itself or just doesn’t show stuff. Currently it’s not unusual to find differences between what it shows and the API and google search itself. Sometimes you can click on the “Crawled not indexed” links, click “Inspect URL”, and it’ll happily tell you it is there.
That said I also agree with the other comment - in my opinion Google has been getting stricter on what it includes in their index. “Crawled not indexed” technically means it may appear in the index but often means that they don’t want it for some reason. That could be a not ranking page that’s near similar to pages that do. Even if a page is indexed then after 130 days of not being crawled it drops out to “Crawled not indexed” - so another possibility is just a timing coincidence.
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