Siteground killing your SEO with false positive captchas
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NoahGuest
Saw this on a client’s site:
Our system thinks you might be a robot!
We’re really sorry about this, but it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between humans and bots these days.Please complete the captcha below to prove you’re a human and proceed to the page you’re trying to reach.
Zero branding, zero explanation, had to research it for a while and then I found, it’s caused by Siteground when you are using Cloudflare.
MadisonGuestRandyGuesthow retarded, why is Siteground playing WAF firewall instead of being a web host? and why would they do this without telling customers
AmyGuestWhat evidence this is from Siteground???
GeorgeGuestWhat evidence this is from Siteground???
JoshuaGuestSiteground and Namecheap, 2 companies that are severely over-hyped. Obnoxious features, obnoxious UI, and I can’t understand why anyone can stand them. I mean its better than Godaddy, but everything is.
LouisGuestnothing more annoying than companies that refuse to play nice with other technologies in your web stack.
BrendaGuestdo you have a screenshot of this?
ShirleyGuestJordanGuestSlickStack fixes this.
PatrickGuestRaymondGuestSiteground is the new Godaddy. Give it a few more years
EmmaGuestAlso: siteground plugins apparently have the delightful feature of phoning home with your email address (among other data):
AlanGuestSiteground:
securing the sh*t out of your website until you have no traffic!
JasonGuestSiteground is the new Godaddy. Give it a few more years
hmm, I think WP Engine beat them to it imho
JulieGuestI’ve spent the past few days trying to figure out this SiteGround captcha indexing issue and found this thread via Google. What a huge help!
Apparently I’ve had this issue with one of my sites for a few months and my pages indexed tanked as did traffic from SEO. Basically Googlebot was interpreting the meta noindex in the /.well-known/sgcaptcha/ files as being a noindex for every page on my site b/c that file was inserted when Google went to crawl the pages.
I wrote a pretty thorough post about this in case anyone else has this indexing issue in the future.
I’m still not sure if this is caused when using SiteGround + Cloudflare or if its SiteGround + Ezoic. Would be interested in any insights about that.
RichardGuestSiteGround + Cloudflare or if its SiteGround + Ezoic
you’re almost there mate. almost there.
ChristinaGuest@Julie
change the name of your blog post to “Why I stopped using Siteground and why you should too!” otherwise total waste of writing tbh….
SamanthaGuestSiteground was removed from WP.org recommended web hosts last year!
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