Switching to HTTPS
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I'm trying to get my server PCI Compliant and they want me to switch the forums at http://www.usacarry.com/forums/ over to https because of the logins.
Could this possibly affect my existing rankings?
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Cheers Oleg, I have just seen the duplicate content issue overlooked so often, so I thought it was important to put this point across and give a useful link to a more in depth look at the solution.
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Woops, good call. I just assumed he would be forcing https - which is hands down the easiest method and takes care of the duplicate issue.
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Yes it could affect your current rankings if you don't make sure that you have redirected your http:// versions to your new https:// versions of the page using a 301 redirect as it can create a duplicate content issue. Here is a more in depth look at this in a recent and very well answered Q&A - http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-content-and-http-and-https
Hope this helps!
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It should not affect your rankings. Just make sure you take out any references to insecure (http) files so that the pages are fully encrypted.
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