From: http://www. to https://

[Tymen]

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

[Tymen]

Hi Bas,

The change is made. Do you know if (and what) I now have to do with my Moz campaign?

Thanx in aadvance

[Tymen]

Hi Bas, Thanx for the clear answers.

No reason to be scared so ;).

[SEO-Bas]

Hi Tymen,

Great questions, to answer them:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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-ssl

Hope this helps!