http https indexing issue

Joe 10 · Jan 25, 2020

Hello,

3 weeks ago I moved one website from http to https.
My sitemap includes 160 URLs.

But when I go to search console only 105 pages are among the indexed pages under "coverage".

When I use the "inspect tool" on one of the other 55 missing URLs, I get this (See screenshot).
https://pasteboard.co/IRD7IN6.png

It seems that for these 55 URLs googlebot is preferring the http version to the https. But this should not be possible since the http version redirects to https.

Is this a normal part of the process of moving http to https and I just have to wait?

Thank you,
D.

localmoon · Jan 25, 2020

If you have added the https version as a new property, uploaded the sitemap on that property (so not the new https links on the http property) and properly 301 redirected the http to https google should eventually index all of your https links. Depending on your site structure this can indeed take a while.

monkey-man · Jan 25, 2020

I never dealt with this issue when I moved one of my domain to https but It looks as if the version with http is still indexed and hence they are identifying it as duplicate and not indexing with ssl. I think little wait should do the work

WebMath SEO · Jan 26, 2020

If you are using canonical tag, can you recheck again on the non indexing pages?

Joe 10 · Jan 26, 2020

localmoon said:
If you have added the https version as a new property, uploaded the sitemap on that property (so not the new https links on the http property) and properly 301 redirected the http to https google should eventually index all of your https links. Depending on your site structure this can indeed take a while.

Yes I did add the https as a new property, and I uploaded the sitemap on that property.
Should I maybe remove the sitemap from the http version?

monkey-man said:
I never dealt with this issue when I moved one of my domain to https but It looks as if the version with http is still indexed and hence they are identifying it as duplicate and not indexing with ssl. I think little wait should do the work

Should I maybe manually go and submit the missing URLs? Old school fetch as google/now URL inspect?

WebMath SEO said:
If you are using canonical tag, can you recheck again on the non indexing pages?

I am using a 301 redirect in htaccess as well as the simple SSL plugin, I tried on the non-indexed pages and they all redirect to https.

localmoon · Jan 26, 2020

Joe 10 said:
Yes I did add the https as a new property, and I uploaded the sitemap on that property.
Should I maybe remove the sitemap from the http version?

Well it shouldn't really matter because google sees both versions as separate websites. Since you 301-ed the entire http to the https version I think it should index them eventually because the 301 tells it the website has permanently moved. I would wait another week and see if the 55 pages have gone down.

Joe 10 said:
Should I maybe manually go and submit the missing URLs? Old school fetch as google/now URL inspect?

If you have the time to do that for 50 url's then that could speed up the process. There wouldn't be any harm in that.

praetserge · Jan 26, 2020

yes, it's normal.
I moved to https over 2 months ago and I still have http pages indexed in google... the very old pages.

it took me about 2 weeks for google to re-index all the main pages... about 1k of them.

Joe 10 · Jan 26, 2020

Should I remove the sitemap from the http version?

hideath · Jan 26, 2020

localmoon said:
If you have added the https version as a new property, uploaded the sitemap on that property (so not the new https links on the http property) and properly 301 redirected the http to https google should eventually index all of your https links. Depending on your site structure this can indeed take a while.

The answer is pretty simple, as he said!

Make sure there's a 301 redirect from HTTP to https and then inspect the HTTP, not the HTTPS, so google will know it has been redirected
What you did is to inspect the https, so google didn't know about the redirect of HTTP and dealt with the page as duplicate
This is mostly due to the lack of canonical tag and I don't think you are using WordPress, so do as I told and everything will work fine

You can also send the HTTP URLs to indexing services such as bulkaddurl (or anything you prefer) and they will be reindexed and google will notice the redirect

Good luck!

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