Home Page Got Indexed as httpS and Rankings Went Down.
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Hello fellow SEO's
About 3 weeks ago all of a sudden the home page on our Magento based website went down in rankings (from top 10 to page 3-4 Google) and was showing as httpS - instead of usual http.
It first happened with just a few keywords and a week later any search phrase was returning the httpS result for the home page.
When I view cache for the home page now it (both http and httpS versions) it gives me this http://clip2net.com/s/2OtPS
- We are not blocking anything in robots.txt
- Robots tags are set to index,follow
- There are hardly any external links pointing at the home pages as httpS
This only affected the home page - all other pages rank where they used to and appear as http
Has anybody ever had a similar problem? Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help
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Great to hear DDseo, glad I helped. You may mark good answers and / or mark the topic answered.
Cheers
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Thank you very much Don, we'll go ahead and add that!
There's also a plugin for magento that adds noindex,nofollow for all httpS pages.
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Hi ddseo,
I think you need to prevent the indexing of https pages.
One method is to create a SSL only robots.txt
like
RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt
This will redirect anything hitting the https port 443 to the robots_ssl.txt else it sends them to the standard robots.txt file. The robots_ssl.txt file would just block everything like...
User-agent: * Disallow: /
Since you're running Magneto there is likely other solutions, like using mod_rewrite in htaccess, the magneto platform is fairly well supported so simple SEO issues like this may get some quality responses on their official forums.
Hope this helps
Don
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