ADVICE NEEDED - from https to http how to change on Google Properly?

Hi Guys,

My site had HTTPs indexed on google for all pages, but I decided not to prolong the licence so my site is no longer HTTPS

What would be the correct way of going around for this in the eyes of Google?

thanks

I think Google will catch up on its own. you are not changing the URL, you are changing the protocol used.

there's nothing to correct. on the next crawl your urls will be indexed with http instead of https and your rankings should stay the same.

Nothing much, just wait for google to crawl again, or speed the process up by submitting all urls to index on WMT.

Just a quick tipp: If your site is built in wordpress you can get https for free if you download the CloudFlare wordpress plugin.

you need to redirect https to http, when is your license expired?

You can use redirect, you can do nothing. It's up to you.

Given that HTTPS is a ranking factor I would recommend you go back to HTTPS. You can get it cheap at NameCheap. They are a reseller, but have below retail price as in cheaper than going to the vendor directly in my experience.

Thanks for the advice guys!

Given that HTTPS is a ranking factor I would recommend you go back to HTTPS. You can get it cheap at NameCheap. They are a reseller, but have below retail price as in cheaper than going to the vendor directly in my experience.

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In my experience it doesn't affect much, yes for the online shop I have done it did increase the rankings a great deal, But for blogs it almost doesn't do anything.

You can use redirect, you can do nothing. It's up to you.

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Already done 301 perm redirect in htaccess but was wondering if that's all

you need to redirect https to http, when is your license expired?

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well, it didn't exactly expire.. had a hosting from a member on here who disappeared - so I had to move it to another host and recreate everything from almost scratch(had only WP DB backup)

Just a quick tipp: If your site is built in wordpress you can get https for free if you download the CloudFlare wordpress plugin.

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Thanks! i'm aware of it but several reasons not to use:
1. Don't want HTTPS - doesn't looks nice on SERPs and it's just a blog
2. Have a different CDN

Nothing much, just wait for google to crawl again, or speed the process up by submitting all urls to index on WMT.

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there's nothing to correct. on the next crawl your urls will be indexed with http instead of https and your rankings should stay the same.

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I think Google will catch up on its own. you are not changing the URL, you are changing the protocol used.

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Thanks guys! Google has already picked up 5-6 pages but the same urls are still on google with HTTPs as well. I'll just wait for a few days then

Thank you for detailed report, mate!