why https

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by cngamemart, Oct 1, 2009.

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    when I do
    site:www.gamezway.com
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    (google) and then I find the first one url is
    https://www.gamezway.com/ 
    Code (markup):
    why is https?:confused: is it any effect on SEO?thanks
     
    cngamemart, Oct 1, 2009 IP
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    Your site has URL canonicalization issues. Pages on your site can be accessed using HTTP and HTTPs. They can also be accessed using WWW and non-WWW versions of the URL. If you don't fix these canonicalization issues, they can lead (as you've already seen) to pages getting indexed multiple times under different URLs. This leads to duplicate content issues and split page rank/link juice.

    Every page on your site should have one and only one URL that you use to refer to that page. This URL is called the canonical (preferred) URL. You need to decided on a set of rules for determining the canonical URL for each page on your site (a URL canonicalization policy) and then enforce that policy preferably using 301 redirects. It's a good idea to isolate all pages that are supposed to be accessed via HTTPS in their own folder(s) or in the case of larger scale systems, on separate server(s). It makes enforcing the correct protocol using 301 redirects much simpler.

    If you don't understand, perhaps this blog post on URL canonicalization will help.
     
    Canonical, Oct 1, 2009 IP