Cloudflare and adsense bans

Like I'm going to funnel all my traffic into another site.



Doubtful top websites are running the same type of Adsense account as OP, they're most likely running premium accounts (different rules).

They use CDN on any sub-domain (i.e. cdn.abc.com) to improve delivery of just images and other static content. They never pass their traffic through any third party servers. You need to learn more about better and safe use of a CDN

I agreed to yukon, big sites are premium publishers and AdSense never gets banned there easily.

He thinks that when you say traffic it means visitors going to another site and not a technical way of handling internet connections on your behalf to your site's content. I was about to cut him some slack because I saw he wrote that last year but I see he still does not know what it is.

That's the question here. It's just a content delivery network, a service that copies your content to a fast and geographically disperse network of servers. The part of the HTML that's serving the ads should be exactly the same as before unless the service is deliberately changing it.

Yukon's sentiment doesn't mean that Cloudflare would actually impact ad serving.

If they would direct traffic in a way they're not supposed to, all hell would break loose. Screwing people isn't something they'd get away with so I'm betting they're not going to try that. Cloudflare's business model is freemium: they've got better features and more robust accounts to offer.

Hi Paul,

Yes indeed, it is 2014, and if you are not in a highly competitive niche and you have a tiny website with very little traffic then you probably do not need a CDN. However if you are in a highly competitive niche, like eCommerce, then there is a significant and measurable benefit in using a CDN service.

For my larger eCommerce websites I ran tests when first implementing the CDN service and measured a 20-40% lift in conversion rates that were directly attributable to the CDN service. That adds up to thousands of dollars in profit each month that we were losing before the adoption of CDN.

Besides making your web page load lightning fast, CDNs offer other benefits, like increased security, lower hosting costs, and a more reliable web presence.

Paul, I had the same concerns that you and others in this thread have expressed. I ended up waiting for more than a year before I finally made the leap. Once I finally took the time to learn the details of how the services worked I kicked myself for putting it off for so long. "This is frickin' 2014" get with the current web technology won't you?

[QUOTE=paulgl;8887875]I only have experience with one site that uses cloudfare. Thing is,
it looks like a drag on visitors. I get messages saying to wait why
cloudfare does something....if that's less load time, count me out.
(it says it's checking my browser...for what, I have no idea)

This means that the site owner turned on I'm Under Attack mode (this is not on by default). A site owner would turn this on when they are having a DDoS attack.