How can I fix a SSL that is redirecting 3 times?
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I have url that is redirecting three times. How do I fix that? I am using WP and running Really Simple SSL plugin. Is it ok to use the redirect plugin also?
See here what the problem is:
http://www.thepatrickmullin.com/ redirects to https://thepatrickmullin.com/ through a redirect chain. This hurts your rankings
http://www.thepatrickmullin.com/ -->
https://www.thepatrickmullin.com/ -->
https://thepatrickmullin.com/Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I don't think so.. I would let it be.
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Jake,
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I switched them a couple weeks back.
Those links were a product of being hacked I believe.
I am leaning towards just letting it be. DO you think it'll affect much?
Patrick
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Hi Patrick,
Did you recently do the switch from http://www.thepatrick... to https://thepatrick.... ? It looks like Google only has some chinese content for the www version of your site - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:www.thepatrickmullin.com/&start=0
If this issue concerns you... I would probably suggest you update your htaccess file to do a redirect from http://www.thepatrick.. to https://thepatrick.. directly vs. letting wordpress push people around. If you don't suspect having a lot of links to the www version of your site or many people visiting that way, I would just let it be...otherwise for this type of situation, it likely won't have any impact on your rankings.
If you are already doing these redirects in .htaccess, it would be helpful if you posted your htaccess file contents here so I can take a look.
Thanks,
Jake
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