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You impersonated googlebot? And you surprised you were blocked? My god I can't believe I read that.

CF is well known to block fake google, bing, yandex and baidu bots dude....

Sorry o.p for barging in.

    joshism Hi there - Lindsey here from Support.

    I want to provide some clarification for my colleague's message. Since we are Google partners, we have access to certain tests that can help us gain a better understanding of what the Google bot might be experiencing. I understand that the previous message may not have conveyed this as clearly as intended, but the essence of the testing my colleague conducted was to explore this aspect.

    I want to emphasize that the test we performed is a standard procedure and not something unusual or malicious in any way. As my colleague mentioned, when conducting such tests and encountering this particular outcome, it's occasionally associated with Cloudflare blocking Ezoic IPs. This issue can often be resolved by whitelisting Ezoic IPs.

    If you whitelist these IPs in your Cloudflare firewalls and any security tools you're using at your host, it should address the problem. :-)

    For the other issues mentioned, please feel free to respond to the tickets that had previously marked as Resolved and they will automatically be re-opened. If you are unable to see our responses or messages back to you, please let us know and we can investigate this to make sure you are able to receive further support for these issues.

      Just to add a bit more context as well that might help clarify the Googlebot crawler access issues, do you happen to have Bluehost as the hosting company? We know you're using Cloudflare on the site, but if Bluehost is the actual hosting platform you're using it could quickly explain the issues with the Googlebot and allow us to provide a fix since there's a known issue with the interaction when involving bluehost, cloudflare, and Ezoic.

        22 days later

        Diego How about you read the contracts you are about to enter into before you do so, and take some responsibility for your own business instead of blaming other people? If Humix isn't working for you, resolve it or remove it. Ezoic has made it very clear how it alters code in order to optimise sites and it's up to you to ensure compatibility with other third-party tools. You certain will lose and be even more financially disadvantaged if you try to take legal action on something you should've known about when you started. This kind of crying and threatening really annoys me because you're taking time away from other genuine issues the staff could be dealing with. Don't bother replying, not interested.

          londonblue Are you a legal representative of Ezoic or do you have some qualification to allow you to address me in that tone? I don't think so, and if you are, I will make sure everyone knows how the Ezoic Staff behaves.
          I don't know who you are but I assure you that regarding the legal evaluation of responsibilities, the evaluation of what is said in the contract and how clearly, how many things did not work (and I thank you for admitting that it was due to the manipulation of the code made by Ezoic), compared to me you are certainly at a disadvantage...
          I await a response on londonblue's qualification.
          Thank you

            Diego Hi Diego, no, londonblue is not an Ezoic employee. The Ezoic Community is a public forum so any users can reply to threads.
            Had you seen the replies to you from our other staff members? It looks like we were waiting to hear back from you.

              Thank you for your answer.
              To be fair, let me say publicly that, after my post, the Ezoic Staff evidently took action because I saw the situation improve significantly.
              Thank you

                HarryB I'm sorry, I totally lost this conversation.
                23 day after your answer, maybe my Search Console data is changed as well as Core vital scores, dropping from a 8x to a 6x but surprisingly with better performance in terms of revenue. Unfortunately, I'm not able to dive technically into this but luckily there's someone like you able to check and possibly repair what's wrong. On my side, I'm open to make as many changes as needed, including changing Wordpress theme if it might help fixing Cumulative layout shift or Largest contentful paint issues. Thank you for your time!

                  Diego Hi Diego, just to check is bluehost your host?

                    Diego I do want to make sure that there isn't any confusion on this part: checking your site speed through Google Search Console or other external site speed checkers can be a bit inflated due to the fact that they do not take into account script delay or caching. This means that certain optimizations done by Leap fly under their detection.
                    It is always best to view your site's core web vitals in the Leap dashboard, as this is most accurate as to what effect your site's ranking and the current status of your site speed.

                      JeanPierre Yes, I'm talking about Core vitals shown on my Ezoic's dashboard
                      As usual, I appreciate what Staff can do and what I will be suggested to do by my side. Including changing Wp theme, if necessary. Tks

                        Hi there,
                        It looks like both your LCP and CLS could be improved upon (it's important to note that as long as the scores are green tboth Google and your visitors will be satisfied, and any further improvements won't have any noticeable impact on either).
                        So I would first advise improving your cache hit rate, this is directly linked to LCP and FID because a cached response will always be faster than a response that comes from the origin server. A good cache hit rate is anything above 80% but ideally, you want this to be as high as possible
                        I would highly recommend that you take a look at this article on how to improve your cache hit rate: https://support.ezoic.com/kb/article/how-to-improve-my-cache-hit-rate

                        Additionally, if you are not already using our CDN manager which is part of our WP plugin then I suggest taking a look at this article: https://support.ezoic.com/kb/article/how-can-i-set-up-the-ezoic-wordpress-plugin-for-cdn-management

                        The CDN manager will help to automate cache updates so you do not need to manually clear the cache when making changes to your site, this should help with improving and maintaining a good cache hit rate.

                        I would also recommend looking through the technologies you currently have on your site, we rank them according to the impact they could be having on your site speed and offer alternatives where possible. You don't need to swap them all out, and you can in fact keep some if they are vital for your site, however making some swaps could have a great effect on your site speed.

                        If you do wish to change your theme to further improve your scores, you can find ones we recommend within the technologies tab under 'Technology Library' however I would advise to make this change in January. During the start of the year the ad rates are typically at their lowest, and as such chnages like this will have the least amount of impact on earnings.

                        Finally, for your CLS, you can test the 'worst' scoring pages here. Our system will detect the cause of the CLS and will provide information on how to resolve it.

                        Improving these scores can take time as they are based on 28 days of field data, so when making changes I would advise testing the page before and after to ensure that they are having the desired effect.

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