Google: 13 Tips Moving HTTP To HTTPS

[engine]

Google's John Mueller has just published 13 tips for moving an http site to https.

These tips include whether it's ok to have the whole site https - that answer is no, it's not necessary.

Moving to https can be done section by section, and need not be done all in one go.

Google is usually good at working out http to https moves, so search drops should not happen, but can happen with bigger sites. The caveat from John, there's no guarantees.

Use the search console to check anomalies.

Crawling will take time, depending upon the site size, and Google moves per url.

You can see the others here.

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[aakk9999]

It is a post definitely worth reading for anyone moving the site from HTTP to HTTPS.

# Do I lose "link juice" from the redirects? No, for 301 or 302 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS no PageRank is lost.

I find this interesting. It implies there is a special handling of http-->https redirect with regards to PageRank. Kind of like:

IF redirect http-->https
AND the rest of URL is the same
THEN do not dampen PageRank

[netmeg]

I just moved one of my sites to https over the weekend; it was relatively painless except for a few nitpicky things having to do with the CDN and the social stuff. Google started indexing the https pages right away. If it doesn't seem to cause any major problems, I'll be doing the rest of them over the next couple months.