Search And Secure Servers

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[clasione]

Hello - everyone....

This is my first post in webmaster world. I visited a very long time ago when I was under the impression that all membership was by paid subscription.... Recently found out that it isn't required...

Very glad to be here...

I'm going to start out my introduction post with a question about secure pages using the http"s" url.

I have a customer that is requiring to be put on a secure server. I am preparing myself to set this up for the first time... Although I have gather some information on puting this job together, I am very interested in here what role this may play relating to crawlability and/or robot comprehension or effect.

Is there any issue known at this time that I should be aware of... Does the http:// differ in any way as compared to [?...]

[bnhall]

Welcome to Webmasterworld!

I believe the concensus is that some spiders have trouble crawling https. Google is one of them, I think.

[Fidget]

Google will index a https page but will not read its contents. So if you link to a https page from an already indexed page, it will show up in search results for words specific to that URL - but this would be of no use to anyone wanting the page to show with page content matching a search request.

[edited by: tedster at 7:45 pm (utc) on Oct. 9, 2004]
[edit reason] fix side scroll, remove specifics [/edit]