[Noah]

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.

[Madison]

source code

https://paste.laravel.io/ccf9fb53-6cd7-45de-81d0-a8eb55f926c0

[Randy]

how retarded, why is Siteground playing WAF firewall instead of being a web host? and why would they do this without telling customers

[Amy]

What evidence this is from Siteground???

[George]

What evidence this is from Siteground???

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/apo-and-our-system-thinks-you-might-be-a-robot-siteground-message/232361

[Joshua]

Siteground 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.

[Louis]

nothing more annoying than companies that refuse to play nice with other technologies in your web stack.

[Roger]

Rank Math SEO kills rankings from fake 404 errors

[Brenda]

do you have a screenshot of this?

[Shirley]

https://imgur.com/a/pCH8tTw

[Jordan]

SlickStack fixes this.

[Patrick]

Does the Instant Indexing plugin actually help SEO

[Raymond]

Siteground is the new Godaddy. Give it a few more years

[Emma]

Also: siteground plugins apparently have the delightful feature of phoning home with your email address (among other data):

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2023/12/15/two-1-million-wordpress-plugins-from-siteground-sponsor-of-plugin-review-team-rep-tracking-without-consent/

[Alan]

Siteground:

securing the sh*t out of your website until you have no traffic!

[Jason]

Siteground is the new Godaddy. Give it a few more years

hmm, I think WP Engine beat them to it imho

[Julie]

I’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.

[Richard]

SiteGround + Cloudflare or if its SiteGround + Ezoic

you’re almost there mate. almost there.

[Christina]

@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….

[Samantha]

Siteground was removed from WP.org recommended web hosts last year!

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