Our site is on a secure server (https) will a link to http:// be of less value?
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Our site is hosted on a secure network (I.E. Our web address is - https://www.workbooks.com).
Will a backlink pointing to: http://www.workbooks.com provide less value than a link pointing to: https://www.workbooks.com ?
Many thanks,
Sam
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I've taken a look into the issue and it seems there is no duplication issues in Moz, so I'm going to consider all okay.
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Thanks will look at getting this sorted.
Sam
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Doesn't really matter what moz shows it matters what Google does. Google typically looks at http and https as separate sites. Same with www and non-www. As he mentioned above pick one and build authority around it. Since HTTPS is now a ranking signal I would stick with that one.
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Thanks,
However Moz doesn't show any duplicate content issues with my site for this reason? So I assume we don't have an issue here.
So do you still consider http link to be an issue? I'm sure the links are benefiting us.
Sam
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Hi,
You can have either http or https but not both because that would be considered as duplicate content. I am insisting to keep https version because Google considered HTTPS as a ranking signal .
Please also read this @ https://moz.com/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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Thanks,
What's your references/source backing up that we should only have https rather than http and https?
Would love to read more.
Sam
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Hi,
Your website is opening on both with http & https . You must keep one version only & in your case https. Redirect (301) http version to https.
As you intended to keep https version take link on https version not on http version.
If you are talking about old links that pointed to http version those links will pass link juice only if you redirect http version to https using 301 redirect otherwise all links won't have any value.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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