going to https - demon torturing me

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largesiteguy

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I have a bilingual site. French and English. Big site, 5 years old

2 months ago I changed from http to https

What happened since then

1) Rankings for French pages went through the roof. Massive improvements, more visitors
2) English pages are indexed with https so google found them. But they are not ranking AT ALL. I lost ALL my rankings which were pretty good before even for tough keywords

I really dont get this. Technically the setup for the French and English site is the same. 301 from http to https is working properly. No problems with the SSL certificate.

I mean if rankings for both languages were lost I would somehow understand it. But this one I dont get

Any ideas guys what happend and what I could do? (going back to http is not an option)
 
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Google takes time to setup things OP, you need to wait little bit more.
 
Nut-Nights said:
Google takes time to setup things OP, you need to wait little bit more.
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so it does not surprise you that one part of the site got its ranking back instantly without any drop whereas the other part of the site does not show anything after two months?
 
I just switch my business to HTTPS and experience big drops in serp :( I guess waiting game to recover..
 
Are you sure you set up all the redirection correctly? It shouldn't cause any problem when switching to https.

Just crawl the whole site and see if there are any issue.
 
As Peter said, making a mistake with the redirection might totally break your website (you do a httaccess redirect?)
 
Veil123 said:
As Peter said, making a mistake with the redirection might totally break your website (you do a httaccess redirect?)
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redirection is correct. Also those https pages are indexed. So again what is so weird here for me is that from a bilingual site the pages for one language benefitted INSTANTLY and ranked better whereas the pages for the other language completely lost their ranking even after 2 months.
 
largesiteguy said:
redirection is correct. Also those https pages are indexed. So again what is so weird here for me is that from a bilingual site the pages for one language benefitted INSTANTLY and ranked better whereas the pages for the other language completely lost their ranking even after 2 months.
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Well, in that case the problem might be in something else. Are you sure you didn't get hit by any of the recent algo changes? A pure coincidence
 
Just use proper htaccess redirection to make sure the traffic is not getting a drop. Also, it will affect your SERP a bit but later on, it will get settle
 
Veil123 said:
Well, in that case the problem might be in something else. Are you sure you didn't get hit by any of the recent algo changes? A pure coincidence
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I am pretty sure that this is not the case for the simple reason that I did not any backlink building for the English site. They were ranking pretty well without any backlinks or just a few ones which I had acquired organically because of my great content (haha).

But seriously guys I dont get it. Again: Two months now since I changed to https - 50% of the site doing great instantly the other 50% completely gone. They say it is never black and white but this is really black and white.

Is it really just the time and I need to wait more (2 months is already a long time) or what else could I do?
 
largesiteguy said:
I am pretty sure that this is not the case for the simple reason that I did not any backlink building for the English site. They were ranking pretty well without any backlinks or just a few ones which I had acquired organically because of my great content (haha).

But seriously guys I dont get it. Again: Two months now since I changed to https - 50% of the site doing great instantly the other 50% completely gone. They say it is never black and white but this is really black and white.

Is it really just the time and I need to wait more (2 months is already a long time) or what else could I do?
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It does not matter whether you build any new links or not, what does matter is how the latest google algo updates "digest" your website as a whole. When they do updates to the .com does not mean that they will do it to the .fr as well.
 
i) There is some time required for Google to rank your web-page after switching to https.

ii) You will need to make sure you have updated all the instances of http with https in your code/configuration so you will need to check every instance.

iii) Please make sure the redirect which you have implemented is correctly implemented. Make sure it is actually working. Only 301 redirect should be there. I would suggest using tools for redirection which will check page by page necessary redirected and will apply those.

iv) If you have applied CDN then it will not work.

v) Make sure sitemap is updated correctly.
 
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