Does CDN is good for seo and Which CDN is best

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by @SHFAQ, Sep 24, 2013.

  1. #1
    I am running a 15 months old pictures wordpress site and my website traffic is increasing so site loads slow because it put load on server so plz give suggestion that i have to upgrade server or use CDN?
    1: Which CDN is best for indian traffic website?
    2: Can we use CDN with already running website?
    3: If i use CDN with already running website then image path and links will change to CDN different IP,s paths so my site will get many 404 errors and link problems so instead of good seo and more traffic it will put negative effect on traffic and seo, so what is the solution for it?

    I will be very thankfull for your help.
     
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  2. DexPedition

    DexPedition Active Member

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    I am not sure if a CDN can help SEO, but it can improve Google ranking due to a better website loading time. Here are my answers:
    1. The only CDN i can trully recommend is Amazon Cloud service CDN.
    2. Yes, specially if you have wordpress, its really easy to install. Please be more specific on how you develop your website
    3. Create a 301 redirect, this won't affect Google SEO and users will still be redirected to the appropiate link. The plugin i use for my wordpress website doesn't upload the already uploaded content, only new content i have uploaded from the moment i installed my CDN.
     
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  3. @SHFAQ

    @SHFAQ Well-Known Member

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    Thanks DesPedition for quick reply and help.
    If there are many links then it will be headache to 301 redirect all links one by one, which plugin you are using and also if CDN take only new uploaded content then it means it will only boost new contents and not all old contents ?

    Plz suggest a link which briefly describe how to setup CDN with already running wordpress site without harming links and images.
     
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  4. Outstanding Links

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    Use Cloudflare. You just point your nameservers to theirs. No plugins to change or anything.
     
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    Since someone already mentioned CloudFlare, I just wanted to let you know that we don't change any of your site links using our CDN. We cache by file extension (yoursite.com/js, yoursite.com/.img for example) and we don't change the url path.
     
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    al_clark7 Active Member

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    Hi there,

    I assume that you might already be running a caching plugin in your wordpress site, but if you are not, try out http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

    This plugin (Or others similar) will help reduce load times. Go to the page and have a quick read if you want to know the way it does this.

    Hope that helps someone, if it does, share the love :)
     
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  7. @SHFAQ

    @SHFAQ Well-Known Member

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    Thanks all guys for helping and replying.
    Infact someone told me that cdn change path of images and links from orign host (http://mysite.com) to destination cdn host (http://cdn.mysite.com) so when every user or search engine get different paths for single link or image like (http://cdn1.mysite.com or http://cdn2.mysite.com) then it will also create 404 errors and also effect wrong on seo so i will get fast loading site but seo will go down or i will be stuck between 404 error pages.
    So i was worried about this issue and ask here for help and suggestions.
     
    @SHFAQ, Sep 24, 2013 IP