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Serve stale to search crawlers for better ranking

Prioritize human traffic over search crawlers by serving stale content to crawlers.

VCL

Use this solution in your VCL service (click RUN below to test this solution or clone it to make changes):

This page is part of a series in the Search engine optimization use case.