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Moved a GitHub Pages site to a custom domain. One month later: indexing is gradually OK, search impressions follow a spike-then-dip pattern. Naver and Cloudflare data is what kept me sane. 6–12 weeks until recovery.
Naver carries 80% of Korean-site traffic, yet most operators skip Naver SearchAdvisor and let the engine find their site by accident. Registration in 5 minutes, sitemap submission, and manual crawl requests — step by step.
GSC: 2 clicks in 3 months. Naver: 230 clicks in 30 days. Cloudflare: 57 visits a day. Same site, 33–115× gap. Which one is the real traffic, and which one are you missing?
robots.txt is the deal with crawlers. llms.txt is the deal with LLMs. The day chatgpt.com first showed up in Cloudflare referrers, I rewrote llms.txt and explicitly allowed every LLM crawler in robots.txt. An hour's worth of notes.
What Google sandbox is · why a fresh domain disappears from search · the real reason CTR drops · how AI Overview eats traffic. 12 concepts I bumped into the hard way after one month of running a new domain, in one page.