Keeping external links after moving from http to https?
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Hi,
Does anyone have experience moving a website to https?
I am about to do so. I have 84 linking root domains and around 2k+ external links. If i move a website to https will these links be lost? And how to keep these links?
Many thanks,
Dusan
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We moved a lot of client sites over to HTTPs from HTTP. We always use the proper 301 Permanent Redirects, and there is no loss of rankings as far as we can tell. When it comes to links in particular, if you 301 redirect one page to another on the same domain name, you will NOT lose any link value. The key here is that it's a redirect on the same domain name.
If you are moving from HTTP to HTTPs, make sure you verify the site in Google Search Console and update Google Analytics, as you will see a loss of data if you don't update those.
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Thanks Dirk. I will read the article.
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Hi,
According to Google the value of the links is transferred to the https domain if your http is properly redirected to https.
Check this post on Google+ from John Mu: https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/PY1xCWbeDVC
Quote: "Do I lose "link juice" from the redirects? No, for 301 or 302 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS no PageRank is lost. "
Hope this helps,
Dirk
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