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Thanks very much Tymen!

Hi Tom, Thank you very much for the fast reply and helpful answer! I have also posted a couple CDN conversations on: 1. https://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-effect-of-cloudflare-cdn-on-page-load-speeds-hosting-ip-location-and-the-ultimate-seo-effect 2. https://moz.com/community/q/what-happens-with-seo-when-a-site-is-served-via-cloudflare-cfn If you feel like adding your thoughts there as well (entirely up to you) I would value them immensely. Kind regards, Mark

Hi Mark, Sure, I would still submit these kind of domains as well to Google Search Console as submitting the domain name doesn't say anything about the indexation of the URL. It's a monitoring which you could use to submit URLs to be indexed but it's not a required thing. We have certain subdomains or root domains in there for our CDN for example that don't provide us with any additional SEO benefits but we still would like to make sure we can monitor some metrics there.

That's a great place to dig in. @Mark - One of our staffers will get to your question soon! It's his birthday today, so we told him to answer when he's recovered from celebrating.

You can use any shred housed for your small content-based website. I'm using shared hosting, and you can see the website page working well.

Location of your server isn't really important - check https://www.seroundtable.com/seo-geo-location-server-google-17468.html: "For search, specifically for geotargeting, the server's location plays a very small role, in many cases it's irrelevant. If you use a ccTLD or a gTLD together with Webmaster Tools, then we'll mainly use the geotargeting from there, regardless of where your server is located. You definitely don't need to host your website in any specific geographic location -- use what works best for you, and give us that information via a ccTLD or Webmaster Tools." Similar message here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en: Server location (through the IP address of the server). The server location is often physically near your users and can be a signal about your site’s intended audience. Some websites use distributed content delivery networks (CDNs) or are hosted in a country with better webserver infrastructure, so it is not a definitive signal. Specifically on CDN's - John Mu indicated "At any rate, while moving to a CDN may result in small temporary fluctuations, making your site faster will frequently help your site much more. Some studies have shown that the faster your site is, the longer visitors will stay, and that's generally a good thing :-). As I mentioned above, if you're seeing significant changes in ranking, then I'd look for the issues elsewhere" (https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cdn-13117.html) Dirk

Well good luck with 100/100 but you should be good to get a 90-ish score. -Andy