HTTPS, wtf!?!
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Searching for any variation of the companies name or domain name returns the correct www.domain.com/ as the result domain, but searching for any variations of site:domain.com/ returns HTTPS://www.domain.com/
Even if I search site:domain.com -blog -product -forum -store -everything -etc
I've done that all the way down to 3 results, none of them are HTTP://www.domain.com/
WTF?!?! does this mean?
I know it means duplicate content, but beyond that. If I 301 to correct domain, or remove the HTTPS version in google webmaster tools will anything drastic happen?!!?
Thanks!
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Thanks
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Appreciate the help
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Thanks for the help
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I think your best bet is rel=canonical. Furthermore, Google agree:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
This section is directly related to your issue:
How do I specify a canonical page?
snip
If you publish content on both http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish and https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, you can specify the canonical version of the page. Create the element:
Hope that helps.
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The guy that worked on this site before was for some reason trying to set up a multiple domain security certificate.
The site's like 10 years old, and of course I have sitemap that is linked through robots.
Any answers related specifically to my question would be appreciated
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1st of all, do you have https on your website ? It would be a good idea to disallow robots through robot.txt from indexing sensitive parts of the website (user login etc etc).
Then submit a website through a sitemap. ( You can also mention sitemaps in your robot.txt).
That should get the ball rolling. You shouldnt expect huge benefits over a short period of time, but it will slowly show up.
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