Adsense and Cloud Flare proxy (free)

Optimisation settings for Cloud Flare free for adsense

[davdib2002]

I'm sorry if this has been done before, but I can't seem to find info on here.

I'm looking for advice on the best settings/configurations for Cloud Flare's free proxy service for the best compatibility with Google Adsense.

I'm asking this because I started using Cloud Flare two months ago and I have seen a 75% drop in my monthly revenue since then. Impressions/Pageviews are still being registered on Adsense and ads are still displaying. But I'm wondering if there may be something I'm missing in cloud flare which might be resulting in contributing to a drop in adsense earnings.

I'm using Adsense auto-ads on a WP blog and have been doing so for many many months now. My traffic profile hasn't changed, in fact, if anything it's increased. So I find it strange that revenue has dropped so considerably.

Thanks for any help!

[Niresh12495]

Cloudflare has nothing to do with Adsense, but i have heard cloudflare cause significant drop in seo, seo drop might be causing low revenue.

[yaashul]

Do you have mod_cloudflare or mod_remoteip installed on origin server? All cloudflare IPs are whitelisted in origin server? Do you hide ads based on device if yes, wrong caching can cause this issue as well.

[NickMNS]

Just to clarify @yaashul's post mod_cloudflare is no longer supported, use mod_remoteip instead and this applies only to those running Apache servers. See details and instructions, for Apache, Nginx and other servers, at this link to Cloudflare support:
[support.cloudflare.com...]

[davdib2002]

Ive not installed any sort of mod on my web server for these. I'm running NGINX on a GCP VM. I was just wondering if cloudflare might be affecting google adsense bot or something. It might just be coincidence, but since installing, although impressions have stayed the same in every way, clicks have dropped.

[levo]

Well, as an example, if you didn't have compression support before, and visitors viewed the banner while waiting for the rest of the page, you would get higher clicks. With compression, the whole page loads at once, and they can scroll immediately.

We don't know if it's a technical issue, or just a side effect of faster loading pages etc. Try to dig in more, check viewability stats in adsense, crawl errors in webmaster tools. Use your hosts file to point your domain name to origin server and compare best performing placements with incognito browser with and without cloudflare. Maybe you'll be able to catch a clue.

Edit: also be careful with css combining&compression, if your placement dimensions are decided by external css, their order etc. could affect fulfillment. you can use network profiling in chrome to test your website with a slow connection to catch such problems.