Search Engines are using my SSL/https instead of http? Why, how?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Ferrari310, Dec 31, 2010.

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    Search engines such as google, yahoo and bing have been changing my sites url from http to https when people search for my sites keyword.

    Instead of search engines picking up my basic URL such as…

    http://www.example.com/

    They are picking up this…

    https://www.example.com/

    How can I fix this issue? I don’t want search engines indexing my site with https.



    Well basically lets put it like this. My website is almost like PayPal when it comes to search engines (auto SSL)...

    Search engines link me via https.

    Direct traffic goes to http.
     
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    Ferrari310, Dec 31, 2010 IP
  2. webcosmo

    webcosmo Notable Member

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    probably that they get to that page with a secure page.

    to fix this you may wanna put a rule on your .htaccess file making a 301 redirect from https:// to http://
    it will take some time, but that should fix the problem.
     
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  3. Ferrari310

    Ferrari310 Well-Known Member

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    Thanks, just caught my mistake! bloody friendly URLS.
     
    Ferrari310, Dec 31, 2010 IP