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How to move your website from http to https?
I would now suggest the following procedure for moving from HTTP to HTTPS: Make the site available under both HTTP and HTTPS simultaneously. Don’t implement redirects to start with. Point the canonical tags to HTTPS. Google will switch over, but slowly. Monitor progress in Google Search Console.
When does traffic go back to HTTP after https?
Traffic dies for a few weeks then recovered after a month or so but even after waiting for a good 5 months the traffic never reached to levels at the time of changing. In total a drop of more then 40% as compared to http version after 5 months of waiting. I changed this site back to http and redirected all the https pages back to http.
What happens if I redirect my Website from http to https?
If you have a www page redirected to non-www and now, additionally, to https non-www, you can see which link of the chain may be eliminated to improve the speed. Slow load times due to excessive redirects may cause users to leave your site and hurt your rankings, so don’t neglect that step.
How does Google view a migration from http to https?
Google views an HTTPS migration as a site move with a URL change. So now you should add the new HTTPS property to your Google Search Console. HTTP and HTTPS are treated separately and don’t share the data. Next, generate a fresh new sitemap featuring the HTTPS URLs and submit it to Google.
How to get Google to switch to https?
Make the site available under both HTTP and HTTPS simultaneously. Don’t implement redirects to start with. Point the canonical tags to HTTPS. Google will switch over, but slowly. Monitor progress in Google Search Console. Verify both HTTP and HTTPS properties in Google Search Console.
How to know if Google is indexing your website on https?
Monitor progress in Google Search Console. Verify both HTTP and HTTPS properties in Google Search Console. Once Google has indexed almost the entire site on HTTPS, redirect HTTP to HTTPS. For my largest site it took Google about 8 months to index 90% of the URLs as HTTPS.