How do https pages affect indexing?
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Our site involves e-commerce transactions that we want users to be able to complete via javascript popup/overlay boxes. in order to make the credit card form secure, we need the referring page to be secure, so we are considering making the entire site secure so all of our site links wiould be https. (PayPal works this way.)
Do you think this will negatively impact whether Google and other search engines are able to index our pages?
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thanks James!
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Thanks a bunch foryour answer!
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No Edward, it won't hurt anything. Just make sure, as JoelHit said, to only use https or http for any given page. Most people use https for their cart and checkout pages, and http for everywhere else - but the important thing is to be consistent and redirect as necssary.
One minor note - https is slightly slower, so you could argue that would affect SEO since site performance is now being considered by SE's. But this is a minor concern.
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