Google treating SSL as different host.

https://www.widgets.com and http://www.widgets.com both in Google.

[jcoronella]

Has anyone seen this? I just noticed a keyword where the first two listings are the same site, but one is the SSL and the other is the non-ssl. Crazy duplication... did this just start?

1) [widgets.com...]

1a) [widgets.com...]

2) [widgets.com...] <--- SSL

3) .....

[Chris_D]

No, its been going on for quite a while, at least 12 months.

Typically, it is most predominant straight after a crawl/ reindex. Typically, over the next few weeks, Google seems to weed out the 'duplicated' content - usually in favour of the http:// port 80 content (where there is port 443 https:// duplicated content).

I suspect the weeding out is done by reference to both DMOZ, and by reference to the backlinks (ie are they to http:// or [)...] - certainly specifying the 'real' one in DMOZ helps.

[bluenile]

Yep that dose happen if G'bot finds backlinks with https://