httpS://www. and http://www. show different pages

seo, https

[lritzel]

I have a question for which i seem not to find an answer in google. I have a client who has shows two different websites depending if the domain is written with a https or a http in the address. Would that make sense in any case?

for example
[example.com...] > opens the page www.example.com

and

http://www.example.com > 301 to a page [corporate.com...]

Would this not as well against Google policies and eventually be SEO problematic. Any comment or link for further information welcome

[edited by: phranque at 12:34 pm (utc) on Jan 21, 2015]
[edit reason] exemplified domain [/edit]

[LanceBachmann1]

Your question is uncleared one. According to which I only guess your client want to redirect domain to 2-3 levels

From HTTPS to HTTP then again same to another URL with HTTPS with another domain.

Rather, You can tell him to make direct 301 Redirect [example.com...] to http://www.XYZ.com (another website)

Why unnecessary increasing redirect as it will slow the speed and not at all good for SEO.

[edited by: phranque at 11:18 pm (utc) on Jan 21, 2015]
[edit reason] unlinked url [/edit]

[lucy24]

http://www.example.com > 301 to a page [corporate.com<...]
Whose 301 is it? Is it a page-for-page redirect? Has google been crawling both forms, http and https? (Disclaimer: I don't personally know how you'd be able to tell.)

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, lritzel!

http://www.example.com > 301 to a page [corporate.com<...]
you need to look at the virtual host configuration for hostname www.example.com listening on port 443 and see if there is a redirect implemented there or in the .htaccess file of the document root directory specified for that virtual host.