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    • admiral99
      admiral99 last edited by

      Dear Moz community,

      Noticed that several groups of websites after HTTP -> HTTPS migration update their schema markup from, example :

      {
      "@context": "http://schema.org",
      "@type": "WebSite",
      "name": "Your WebSite Name",
      "alternateName": "An alternative name for your WebSite",
      "url": "http://www.your-site.com"
      }

      becomes

      {
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@type": "WebSite",
      "name": "Your WebSite Name",
      "alternateName": "An alternative name for your WebSite",
      "url": "https://www.example.com"
      }

      Interesting to know, because Moz website is on https protocol but uses http version of markup. Looking forward for answers 🙂

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        admiral99 @BritneyMuller last edited by

        Thank you very much for the answer.

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        • BritneyMuller
          BritneyMuller last edited by

          Thanks for your great question!

          Schema.org has stated that using either is fine. Here is their longer form answer from their FAQ page on which to use:

          "There is a general trend towards using 'https' more widely, and you can already write 'https://schema.org' in your structured data. Over time we will migrate the schema.org site itself towards using https: as the default version of the site and our preferred form in examples. However 'http://schema.org' -based URLs in structured data markup will remain widely understood for the forseeable future and there should be no urgency about migrating existing data. This is a lengthy way of saying that both 'https://schema.org' and 'http://schema.org' are fine."

          That being said...I think I'll go switch Moz.com to https now. 🙂 Think they will keep http:// around for a while, though. Especially considering SEOs who implemented Schema before https and G doesn't want to penalize site owners for not knowing any better? <- My personal thoughts on this.

          Thanks again!

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