Https indexed...how?
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Hello Moz,
Since a while i am struggling with a SEO case:
At the moment a https version of a homepage of a client of us is indexed in Google. Thats really strange because the url is redirected to an other website url for three weeks now. And we did everything to make clear to google that he has to index the other url.
So we have a few homepage urlsA https://www.website.nl
B https://www.websites.nl/category
C http://www.websites.nl/categoryWhat we did:
- Redirected A with a 301 to B, a redirect from A or B to C is difficult because of the security issue with the ssl certificate.
- We put the right canonical url (VERSION C) on every version of the homepage(A,B)
- We only put the canonical urls in the sitemap.xml, only version C and uploaded it to Google Webmastertools
- We changed all important internal links to Version C
- We also get some valuable external backlinks to Version C
Is there something i missed or i forget to say to Google hey look you've got the wrong url indexed, you have to index version C?
How is it possible Google still prefers Version A after doing al those changes three weeks a go?
I'am really looking forward to your answer.
Thanks a lot in advanced!
Greetz
Djacko
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Sorry for my late respons.
We have decided to go over on https for the whole website that was the best thing to do. The results are good and Google is also happy because there is just one kind of a url we are using within the whole website.
We prefer the short url version and that worktout good.
Greetings
Jacco
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Hey Djacko: Has Google figured it out? Is the right version of your page indexed now?
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Hi Rickus,
Thanks for your answer. I agree its still a little bit confusing for Google wich url is the homepage url. We also discovered they have normal links pointing to https urls. So the intern linkstructure is not so good as well.
We will wait a little longer for Google to react on the 301 redirect. We were thinking if he still prefer the https version A, to change all urls in https urls and make an new sitemap with https urls as canonicals and redirect all http urls to https versions. I think Google prefer more often https versions of websites.
Whats your opinion about that?
Thanks a lot!
Djacko
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Hi there Djacko,
You redirected A to B but could not redirect A or B to C, So that means google is still not to sure of which one is the correct url. And switching from https to http is telling google you have a new domain.
So don't stress to much just make sure that your http://www.homepage.nl and the https://www.homepage.nl has the same work and SEO done on them and give google time to realise whats happend to you site.
In personal experience a 301 redirect always takes the longer to be crawled and updated and in this case its your homepage (domain).
Hope this helps and good luck
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