how do I get secure pages indexed by search engines

ecommerce site with both http and https pages

[larry12468]

I am about to launch my new website for consumer electronics products.

The site is www.widgets.com which 301 redirects to www.secure.widgets.com

and all the product pages are secure and begin with https.

The secure product pages will have unique page title tags based upon the item description and model number.

So my question is which url to submit to Google,
www.widgets.com

or

www.secure.widgets.com which is where all the https product pages are.

Thanks!

Larry

[edited by: caveman at 3:23 pm (utc) on Sep. 25, 2006]
[edit reason] Widgetized. No specifics please, per TOS. [/edit]

[webjive81]

Submit them both. There is no penalty for "oversubmitting". The major search engines index both https and http.

[webjive81]

I should also add that you may want to code in validation to check for the site being secure just in case a spider indexes your page incorrectly with or without security. If you have already done this, then disreguard this message. :-)

[stajer]

Larry, I would encourage you to seriously rethink your site design. Even if all the major SE's will index secure pages (I am skeptical), you are going to cause user problems.

By nature, secure pages are slower loading than insecure pages. Further, whether your pages will display at all (or elements of them) is suddenly at the whim of how somebody's windows security settings are configured.

Finally, secure pages take more bandwidth and server resources.

Your best bet is the industry standard - only encrypt login, checkout and account information pages.