: Impact of using a CDN Proxy (like Incapsula or Cloudlfare) with numerous websites We have a network of something like 70 websites. We have one IP by website for SEO reason. We are planning

@Sims2060225

I actually work at Incapsula.

To answer your question:


All of our IP ranges were manually submitted to Google. As a result, when you use Incapsula, Google will know that this is a CDN reverse proxy.
Incapsula IPs are used by highly trusted sites/organizations.
Consider the Trust benefits of having the same range as large government sites and Fortune 500 companies.... From what I saw, sites that use relatively low trust IPs (i.e. tier 2-3 share hosts) will actually get a very nice SEO boost just by onboarding Incapsula.


For further reference I've added here 2 links to a blog posts I wrote about CDN related SEO benefits and common SEO related myths:

SEO Benefits: www.incapsula.com/the-incapsu...and-advantages
SEO Myths: www.incapsula.com/the-incapsu...s-myth-busting
GL

PS: I also just answered a similar question in WarriorForum.

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@Radia820

Generally you will find that CDN's will give you a dedicated IP address for each container you setup, however they will share the same C Class IP address depending on where the content has been downloaded from as CDN's work by closest region so you generally get more than 1 IP address per a region.

So with this said you will get a dedicated IP address but will share the same C class, now the other thing is you will get the same TLD i.e your-container-id.cf3.rackcdn.com So the foot prints here are the C class IP and the TLD domain. If you are daisy chaining the sites with one another and you have gone to the extent to have different C Class IP addresses and you believe that Google uses this in their algorithm then yes, it leaves a footprint.

It should be possible to speed up your site(s) without CDN with decent hosting if you are concerned about Google.

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