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Thanks. It's a finance site and they've decided to make the entire visible site on https, not just specific pages. The http URL redirects to the https version.

Thanks. It's a finance site and they've decided to make the entire visible site on https, not just specific pages. The http URL redirects to the https version.

Thanks. As mentioned, the site isn't ours or (currently) one of our clients.

I'm looking at a site for which the https URL currently ranks in Google. Using a header checker on the http URL I see that it is being 302 redirected to the https version (I have no control or input on this site).

In OSE there's no option to specify an https URL as the http part is pre-populated and uneditable. My question is: does OSE treat the https and http version as the same URL? I'm guessing so as the http URL has a lot of domain authority despite not being the "default" URL.

Thanks for your response Aaron. Thats why I asked the question because we have done some 301ing in the past and I am pretty sure PR was transferred pretty sharply however, it does not seem to have done so on this occasion.

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Thanks for your response Theo, much appreciated.

We did not build the site and have no access to analytics or anything, as far as I am aware there is no current problems with visitor numbers or keyword positions.

I know the toolbar PR is pretty much useless these days and we will be advising them to host the homepage on the root domain however, we would still like to know the answer to the question, if anybody knows it that is?

Its more a vanity thing but if the answer is yes, PR should transfer quicker than normal if 301 redirected!. It will give me more weight to convince them to revert back to the root folder.

Usealy one of us guys will know the answer but this one has stumped us,.

Thanks again for your response Theo

Hi

I have been asked to carry out a site audit for a potential client. The site has that many issues I don't where to start in explaining them however, there is one question we are debating and would like to get a second opinion on it.

The site I am auditing used to have a homepage rank 7. The site has currently had a redesign (new template with new URLs) and now the root domain 301 redirects to a sub folder two levels deep (not ideal I know!). This happened about a month ago and we are still getting N/A for toolbar page rank.

The question is, does Google page rank transfer quicker than normal due to the redirects? or do we still have to wait on the next Google Page Rank update?

Thanks in advance

Gavelect