New site - http or https?
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Hi. We are currently in the process of creating a new website. We will be using our old domain name. However, the current website is currently live on both http and https protocols, with no re-directs in place. When we launch the new website, we would like to redirect everything to one or the other. Would the preference be to use https as the preferred protocol?
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Https - google has been warning us - https is preferred over http. At the moment if two sites are equal https will prevail. Alick is spot on.
However google is conditioning us at present - so that when it amps up the power for https we will be prepared. I have no doubt google will amp up the power of https in 2-3 years if not earlier - significantly more juice will be given to https sites over http. https hurts PBN's and impacts many black hat practices. The sooner you do it and bed https down the better. There maybe a slight loss in page loading speed, which should be monitored.
Hope that assists.
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Hi,
You should use https because HTTPS as a rankings boost (Google has confirmed the ranking boost of HTTPS).
To know more please read @ https://moz.com/blog/seo-tips-https-ssl
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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