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http links are back after 5 years

         

Ramya

8:06 am on Mar 8, 2023 (gmt 0)



We have moved from http to https five years back. Now, Goole started showing few http urls in sitelinks. We don't have any http links on our website

not2easy

12:40 pm on Mar 8, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Hi Ramya and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

If you click those links, do you see http: pages?

lucy24

6:34 pm on Mar 8, 2023 (gmt 0)

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I track my http-to-https redirects. Now and then, it's a human sent by google. (Most humans involve a handful of pages that are especially likely to have been bookmarked before the site went https.)

Or, at least, that's what it looks like. Is it possible that each one is a highly skilled robot, lying about who sent them?

tangor

10:41 pm on Mar 8, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Given the age of some of my sites I see a LOT of http (resolved to https 301 redirects) simply because the user base goes back that far and most of the folks do not update their browsers (older crowd). Mostly bookmark type of linkage.

On the other hand, have been https for years and I have yet to see g (or any of the other se's) showing http links to my site(s) in their serps. Most got the message within 90 days of the changeover(s).

Ramya

11:40 pm on Mar 8, 2023 (gmt 0)



Thanks for the replies. on a mouse hover http links are showing, after clicking those are redirecting to https URLs.

phranque

12:52 am on Mar 9, 2023 (gmt 0)

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most importantly i would check your web server access log files to insure that valid googlebot requests for http: urls are getting a 301 redirect to the equivalent https: url.