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Sorry for my late respons.

We have decided to go over on https for the whole website that was the best thing to do. The results are good and Google is also happy because there is just one kind of a url we are using within the whole website.

We prefer the short url version and that worktout good.

Greetings

Jacco

Hi Rickus,

Thanks for your answer. I agree its still a little bit confusing for Google wich url is the homepage url. We also discovered they have normal links pointing to https urls. So the intern linkstructure is not so good as well.

We will wait a little longer for Google to react on the 301 redirect. We were thinking if he still prefer the https version A, to change all urls in https urls and make an new sitemap with https urls as canonicals and redirect all http urls to https versions. I think Google prefer more often https versions of websites.

Whats your opinion about that?

Thanks a lot!

Djacko

Hello Moz,

Since a while i am struggling with a SEO case:

At the moment a https version of a homepage of a client of us is indexed in Google. Thats really strange because the url is redirected to an other website url for three weeks now. And we did everything to make clear to google that he has to index the other url. 
So we have a few homepage urls

A https://www.website.nl
B https://www.websites.nl/category
C http://www.websites.nl/category

What we did:

• Redirected A with a 301 to B, a redirect from A or B to C is difficult because of the security issue with the ssl certificate.
• We put the right canonical url (VERSION C) on every version of the homepage(A,B)
• We only put the canonical urls in the sitemap.xml, only version C and uploaded it to Google Webmastertools
• We changed all important internal links to Version C
• We also get some valuable external backlinks to Version C

Is there something i missed or i forget to say to Google hey look you've got the wrong url indexed, you have to index version C?

How is it possible Google still prefers Version A after doing al those changes three weeks a go?

I'am really looking forward to your answer.

Thanks a lot in advanced!

Greetz

Djacko

Thank you, I'll read the article.

Thank you!

Sometimes we place our blog post also on a external site. In this case this post is duplicated. Via the post we link to the original source but is it also possible to use the rel canonical tag on the external site?

For example:

• The original blogpost is published on http://www.original.com/post
• The same blogpost is published on http:///www.duplicate.com/post.

In this case is it wise to put a rel canonical on http://www.duplicate.com/post like this:

?

What do you think?

Thanks for help!

Robert