Cloudflare Serves as a AMP CDN

anon1385 · on Aug 16, 2017

Could you show us some examples of AMP sites served from Cloudflare (and not the Google AMP cache) that show up in the Google AMP carousel and get the AMP logo in the Google search results?

_jgvg · on Aug 16, 2017

The burden is on you to prove that they don't.

anon1385 · on Aug 16, 2017

How can I prove a negative?

I can only point to what the Google AMP documentation says, where they state that you have to allow your site to be served by Google AMP Cache to count as an AMP site: https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/faq and https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/about-amp

Maybe they don't follow their own docs and there are sites out there not cached in the Google AMP Cache that still get placed in the carousel. I have no way to prove that without being able to test every single possible search term (plus all the other variables like location which affect the results).

_jgvg · on Aug 16, 2017

The wording is that you have to allow you page (not site) to be cached by any CDN.

kuschku · on Aug 16, 2017

And yet, you only get a ranking boost if you allow Google to cache your page on their CDN. You can not run your own modified version of the AMP js, or run AMP’s js from your servers, or opt out of being cached by Google’s CDN and get the ranking boost.

To quote the AMP specs, a page is only eligible for showing up as AMP in search if it

> contains a <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag inside their head tag.

and

> is allowed to be cached in the Google AMP cache