Can I have my blog on http and the rest of the site on https?
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I have an ecommerce site that is on https. We have a Wordpress blog for blogging, but we also have our help section located on it. I used a plugin to switch the blog to https but now have a few problems.
1. My sitemap generator still shows the blog as http and Google gives me a warning for the redirect.
2. When trying to use the Moz page grader I was told that I was in a redirect loop.
3. The pages do not seem to be getting indexed.
It is a blog so there is never any information exchanged that is private. Would I be ok with just switching it to http? Or would Google see that as two different sites even though they have the same domain?
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Thanks for the response. I prefer the consistency as well but keep hitting walls.
1. I am using Wordpress HTTPS. I think it redirects all http to https. So a sitemap generator only sees the http. My sitemap is correct besides that.
2. I do not believe I have a redirect file setup, just the http to https plugin mentioned above.
3. Robots.txt and meta tags are all good.
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Hi there
1. Update your sitemap - there are tons of great sitemap generators that will take care of this for you.
2. Check your redirect file and internal links to make sure you aren't inadvertently linking into the redirect loop.
3. Did you check your robots.txt and meta tags? Sometimes this could be the issue - here are some resources for Wordpress.If it were me, I like consistency, so I would keep the whole site https from that regard. As this is a ranking factor (albeit a small) one, I would take Google's word for it.
Here is a resource from Google with more information.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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