From: http://www. to https://
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Hi all,
I am changing my hosting for legal and SEO reasons from http://www to https:// . Now I hear different stories on the redirects:
1: should i try and change my backlinks?
2: internally all links will be 301 redirected at first. Than I want to (manually) change them. It;s within Wordpress so there should be a plugin for this. Tips?
3: Will it affect my rankings and for what period? What I now know that at first it will drop little but eventually you will rank higher than before.
Thanks so much in advance!
Tymen
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Hi Bas,
The change is made. Do you know if (and what) I now have to do with my Moz campaign?
Thanx in aadvance
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Hi Bas, Thanx for the clear answers.
No reason to be scared so ;).
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Hi Tymen,
Great questions, to answer them:
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Yes, you should try to change your backlinks to match your HTTPS adress but don't sweat it if you can't change all backlinks.
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Try to avoid 301 redirecting internal links. There are many great guides to do HTTPS migrations in Wordpress and doing complete rewrites from HTTP to HTTPS.
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It might affect your rankings short-term, but that's not necessarily the case. We've enables HTTPS on multiple websites without any noticeable drop. Be sure to check out these great guides to help you out:
https://moz.com/ugc/increase-conversions-by-fixing-https-errors
https://moz.com/blog/enabling-https-without-sacrificing-web-performance
https://moz.com/blog/seo-tips-https-sslHope this helps!
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