New Site Worries
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To cut a long story short, our old web developers who built us a bespoke site decided that they could no longer offer us support so we decided to move our back end to the latest Magento 2 software and move over to https with a new company.
The new setup has been live for 3 weeks, I have checked in webmaster tools and it says we have 4 pages indexed, if I type in site:https://www.mydomain.com/ we have 6560 pages indexed, our robots.txt file looks like this:Sitemap: https://www.mydomain.com/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.mydomain.com/sitemaps/sitemap_default.xml
I use Website Auditor and Screaming Frog, Website Auditor returns a 302 for my domain and Screaming Frog returns a 403 which means I cannot scan any of these. If I check my domain using an https checking tool some sites return an error but some return a 200.
I have spoken to my new developer and he says everything is fine, in Webmaster tools I can see some redirects from his domain to mine when the site was in testing mode. I am concerned that something is not right as I always check my pages on a regular basis. Can anyone shed any light on this, is it right or am I right to be concerned.Thank you in advance
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As far as Google Search Console is concerned - make certain you've verified a new Property in GSC for specifically the HTTPS version of your domain. Google (and other search engines) consider the HTTPS version a completely separate site, and so accurate data will only exist in the new HTTPS property.
If multiple monitoring and crawling tools are at least occasionally reporting improper redirects or are blocked, that's a huge potential issue and must be thoroughly researched. First place to start is to make certain that the SSL certificate encompasses both the www and non-www versions of the domain. If you provide the URL, we may be able to provide more info.
Hope that helps?
Paul
P.S. If the developer's version of the site has carelessly been allowed to get indexed, that's going to have to be dealt with too.
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