i want to change all http to https, is it ok?

Will google like it?

[AjiNIMC]

Hi,

I have a financial website with http. All the pages are doing good with Google rankings.

Now I want to enable https and want to redirect all the http url to https, will it create a problem with Google.

Thanks,
AjiNIMC

[AjiNIMC]

any answer? I am worried about loosing the rankings.

[bruceh]

Google may include existing pages but tends not to crawl secure pages. Pagerank toolbar will show no page rank availible. You should try to only use https after client login, which is the purpose to secure your clients privacy. Keep your content that brings in traffic http.

[tedster]

A different protocol (https in this case) creates a new URI, even if the rest of the address stays the same. This means Page Rank and backlink issues, at least for a while.

You may well smack into all the other ranking obstacles that can confront any site that renames their URIs in other ways (html to htm, www and no-www, etc.) Content that is indexed with both protocols creates a duplicate issue for Google to sort out. The new URIs will also be "new" and have no history going for them. If your site is long established, this factor also can create ranking issues.

I know of one site that accidentally resolved all their URIs with both https and http. The http versions were indexed first. When the https versions were later indexed, those were the ones that stuck in the Google index and the http versions became Supplemental. That was a horror show for them (their rankings completely tanked), but could be what you prefer.

That experience was pre-Big Daddy, but it shows that troubes are possible. You may want to use the <base href=""> tag in the head section of every document to show that you intend the https protocol to be used for every navigational link in the site.