Domain Preference : Please share your opinion

Can anyone suggest me deference b/w these URLs;-

http://www (domain name)
https://www (domain name)

Actually, recently I have changed domain to secure server (https) and but I had done maximum linking with http recently.
Now, number of back links decreasing day by day of the website.

Please suggest me how to maintain our back links.

Thanks

 

https uls are mostly for encrypted communication and used for secured stuffs which is not required for public data which you think not needed https. But if you want to keep your back links then you can detect referers and filter those referers to visit to non https urls and all this need to be done on htaccess its that simple

 

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) means its a secured website, you are nothing to worry about payments, hacking anything like that. Mostly e-commerce sites have this. hope this info can give you idea.

 

@frank007 and @jopsons , thanks for your reply... acutely i am concern about back links ... how to recover back links for my https website.. because i had done linking with http . if you have any idea pls share

 

It depends. If you don't have any submission forms that might need sensitive information then going secure is kind of pointless.

 

Let me ask you this question first : Do yo need to change the http thing to https ? Or its just the update you are following?
I bet you surely knows what https stands for and why websites use it. So, the point is are you using any data that is confidential, private or requires payments online and transaction things? If not, then there is no pint in changing it and losing what you already achieved. But, in case you have some data that needs to be secured then you have to build backlinks again. Its up to us which update to adopt and how it can affect us. Analyse, test and then implement changes.

 

The secured version is better and preferred, it also increases trust.

 

You have to redirect the http domain URL to https. So the Google can understand that you have redirected the old http URL to new https URL. You can do this by adding a code to your htaccess file.

 

As far as I know, the only way to keep the backlinks you've built to the http version of your website is to redirect it to the https version of your site. Once Google notices the redirect, the http version will be removed from the index and all the link juice from the backlinks you built to the http version will be transferred to the https version.