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I had discussed about http and https concerns previous at Google Groups (even some threads at WebmasterWorld)
My discussions with Googlers confirms (as of Jan 2008).
1) Google considers http and https as two different websites.
Now my queries are:
1) My website is accessible at both http and https. (I am not sure if
I should redirect http to https, surely I can't redirect https to http)
2) If I have 100 links to http and 100 links to https, am I distributing my link strength?
3) Is there a way I can tell Google that http and https are giving the same content, and I prefer http to be indexed (the way we do for www from webmaster console). I don't want to prefer https because it promots a pop up when people come from Google, that you are shifting from http to https, sometime people get scared when such pop up comes.
4) Let me know the best way to tackle this issue.
Regards,
Aji Issac
[edited by: tedster at 9:31 am (utc) on Nov. 13, 2008]
1) My website is accessible at both http and https. (I am not sure if
I should redirect http to https, surely I can't redirect https to http)
you'll have to exclude a few other things like images etc. as firefox will show an alert if your displaying http images on the https page.
2) If I have 100 links to http and 100 links to https, am I distributing my link strength?
3) Is there a way I can tell Google that http and https are giving the same content, and I prefer http to be indexed (the way we do for www from webmaster console). I don't want to prefer https because it promots a pop up when people come from Google, that you are shifting from http to https, sometime people get scared when such pop up comes.
4) Let me know the best way to tackle this issue.
Vimes.
One easy way to achieve that is to have the cart on a subdomain, only accessible by https, and to make sure that http is the only way to access the main domain.
