Indexing problems with ASP redirect to secure site

[spinweb]

I inherited a client site with an asp redirect to a secure version of the home page. When you enter the site's url into the browser, you are immediately redirected to the https secure url. The entire site is https.

For example, the main url is www.sitename.com. (not real url)

It redirects to (for example): [secure.websitesecure.com...]

The asp code appears as follows (the full url has been edited out):

<%
response.redirect <https://secure.....>
%>

When I do a search on the company name in Google, the main url link ranks on page 1 in the results, so I know the site is in the Google index and has not been banned for the redirect. But the site does not rank well overall.

I also noticed that the link to the site found in the search results did not contain the standard content pulled from the description tag (the page does have a description tag) and page content. There was no link to view a cached version of the page, either. It was just a link to the main url with a link below it to "similar pages". Why is that?

The site does not have to be all within a secure environment, except for the order processing sections. Should I place the search engine optimized pages out of the secure environment and eliminate the asp redirect?

Is the asp redirect a problem at Google? Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

[heini]

spinweb, from what I know Google sees no problem indexing https files, as long as they are not robots.txt protected, and as long as they don't require a login, obviously.

To get this discussion started two links:
Try https + forum3 [webmasterworld.com]

Also for comparison see this Google search [google.com]

No idea about the ASP redirect, though.

[spinweb]

Thanks for the help heini. Not sure where to go on asp redirects, though.

[heini]

Spinweb, you might try posting specific ASP questions in our ASP forum [webmasterworld.com]
The experts will probably get to see an ASP post over there much better than here.