SSL Necessary on Every Page?
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Our ecommerce site is currently set up with an SSL on each page. My understanding is that these would need to be removed on the pages that I'd like a 301 redirect to be placed on. As of now, we have 302s due to the SSL.
Do I need an SSL on every page or just the checkout pages? Any real benefit to having the SSL on every page?
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If you are using magento commerce, I can help you out. What software are you using? SSL should only be at checkout.
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There is a good discussion related to your topic in the comments section of this post:
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3145/https-best-practices-for-seo-and-usability
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If your question is around the SSL part it really only adds value in places where you don't want the communication between the end user and yours servers to be sent in clear text (easily readable). The clear choices for this are where a username / password combination is passed, or credit card information such as the checkout pages.
Personally I would not set up all pages of an ecommerce store to use SSL. I would leave all catalog pages as non-SSL.
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