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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.
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.