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About redirection
I have a WordPress site that had good ranking.
I installed SSL and redirected it to https using the following
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Now it redirects
http://mysite.com
to https://www.mysite.com/
and because of this I am loosing ranking is there anything I can do ? please suggest
Thank you
Comments
Turn it off.
No- seriously.
A few months ago I activated SSL on all of my sites with automatic http to https (.htaccess) and I ain't got no ranking drops, one site is without redirection and now google indexed the HTTPS version.
Add https version in webmasters panel. Wait for some time and you'll get Rankin back
Use HTTP status code 302 instead of 301. 302 tells Google that the site has "moved" to the HTTPS version. 301 simply tells there is a redirect.
Does 302 not tell it's temporary? While 301 is permanent
One source says it does, some others say it does not.
That still applies.
hmmmm , maybe HSTS ?
just set up header with HSTS , and then next time all and every request browser send will be automatically upgraded into HTTPS
It happens for sometime because when you redirect http urls to https then google will take time to crawl new urls so wait for some time. Before how much time have you redirected website from http to https?
Exactly. Additionally, adding https version in webmasters isn't a bad idea as well