Changing a site from http to https
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Will my rankings be affected if I change domain from http to https and force redirect?
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Thanks for all the responses.
It is a large site that runs on Wordpress. For the login and registration pages we are currently forcing https. It currently shows the https pages in SERPS for login and registration. Just want to be sure that if I redirect the entire website to https that it wouldn't hurt my rankings.
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Lesley,
Depending on a number of factors like the size of your site, its authority, and architecture, you may drop temporarily in rankings and traffic if you redirect from http to https. FYI, another way of handling it would be to rel=canonical the http to the https for all practical purposes, it would accomplish the same thing but would leave both versions available to the visitor.
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Not all the time I know is a rule HTTP S is slower than without SSL CERT however if you're using SPDY your far better off. You have less calls, and it is lightning fast. Using Certs I would only do this if I were using Nginx currently in my opinion the best Web server available and the only one that can implement SPDY
WordPress only hosts like Zippykid along with, web synthesis have implemented this months ago.
the advantages are enormous To see how well they perform with a certain check out their speed run them through a speed test
I don't know what type of website you are running however
if you do it the correct way you can actually secure your site while speeding it up
any web host that runs a VPS most likely will allow you to run Nginx
a small orange is an excellent example however liquid Web rack space and many more allow you to do the same thing including media Temple hosting companies
I would strongly recommend moving over to it uses one 8th of the resources meaning it's much less expensive to run a server if your paying for RAM
cloudflare.com will also allow you to implement this on your current host no matter what it's running all in all this will make your site safer and even faster believe it or not
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/nginx-version-1-4-0-supports-spdy-protocol
http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
https://developers.google.com/speed/spdy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY
Last year, GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo and nginx announced the improvement of privacy and reliability of nginx web server with OSCP stapling. The method enhances the basic OCSP method since it allows the presenter of a certificate, such as the website hosting the SSL certificate, to deliver the OCSP response in the browser.
If you honestly don't have any reason however I don't suspect you would just want to switch your site over to use a cert.
I would leave well enough alone however if you do want to employ this certificate I would use either one of the hosts I suggested firehost My personal favorite,and the host I use most often is one of the absolute best in the world cloud for all around hosting in my opinion however is allowing for this to be implemented at $25 a month with the SSL CERT and is making it faster than without the cirque so as long as you're running SPDY a protocol Google itself came up with to fix this issue you will not have a problem sites like American Express WordPress.com and many more are using it it's not the wrong way to go.
However what these gentlemen I think are saying I is use a cart that is hosted by a 3rd party and already has a strong PCI compliance something that would mimic your site and just be there to accept payments if I'm correct is that right guys?
Respectfully,
Thomas
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why would you want to do that? Https is usually slower than http (so you might lose rankings on that alone)
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