https and Google

[Adam_C]

Does anyone know what the deal is with Google and https:// sites these days?

I'm seeing a few pages indexed, but no PR, and scant details description and title-wise.

[Adam_C]

Nobody know anything about this then...?

[WibbleWobble]

I did a quick "link: ["...] on google (by no means definitive, but still) and while none have pagerank, there are quite adequate descriptions and titles*. Those indexed with the prefix are quite thin on the ground though. I wouldn't recommend doing an entire site in SSL just yet :p

*one even appeared to be listed with a category and directory description.

[ciml]

I don't see a problem. https pages can have PageRank and be ranked, but the Toolbar doesn't report their PR.

[Adam_C]

So would you say that there is no problems in spidering such pages then, ciml?

[GoogleGuy]

We crawl https pages because there's useful information there, but we respect robots.txt and meta tags on those pages just like any other pages.

The only thing to be aware of is that we look for
https://www.example.com/robots.txt and
http://www.example.com/robots.txt
so make sure that you have both versions if you need them. Most servers by default will do this automatically.