Lost 50% of traffic after switching to HTTPS (SSL)

Well I know it takes time until Google process everything with 301 and so, but this is so demotivating :|

Before a week I decided to redirect all of my sites from http to https (Since having a SSL is becomeng “must to have” factor of SEO and secured looking website)

My sites had good ranking and making progress in SERPs while time passes, and now after I implemented SSL every site lost from 30-50% of traffic.
It’s been a week since i switched this.

I was reading it takes approximatelly one month until traffic and rankings gets back to normal when it was before. Sometimes even up to 3 months. Damn this is to much.
It’s making me so frustrated and demotivated, because my earnings dropped and so.
I want to do something to not think about this but it’s hard, and i’m checking serp positions all the time in hope sites will get back. I’m becoming mental sick haha

What’s your experience with this? Did anyone’s sites SERPs recover faster then one month?

And yes, I did everything right: 301 of all pages is correctly done with .htaccess. Did everything done in WMT and G-Analytics and everything.

Do you have some tips to speed this up?

It’s just this stupid time now which I have to wait until I become calm again.

It will take time, SEO takes time, there's not really a way around it. The only thing you can do to "speed things up" is make new links for your https version.

You can use referral tag

https://moz.com/blog/meta-referrer-tag

There will be a drop in traffic any way it will take 3 months of time to recover and In mean will build links to the new urls with protocol

It will bounce back. Try to build some clean links in the meantime to try to offset some of the dip in traffic. Google will correct the SERPs eventually.

That sucks but what you can do in the mean time is offset traffic by building up your websites presence with social media and this way you should have stable traffic even when your rankings drop. Never rely purely on SERP traffic because the result is this, you must diversify!

I'm very sorry to hear about the drop. That is very frustrating and downright sad. I've switched over several sites to SSL and didn't experience any signficant drop, but there were some incidents caused by SSL breaking certain things and degrading the experience of others, so be sure to do a complete check of your site to make certain everything is functioning properly.
For example, are your secure pages embedding or loading insecure content? This could include non-intuitive things like scripts in a page that are loading resources unbeknownst to you. Anyhow, I wish you the best of luck and fast recovery.

It depends on how often Google crawls your site. If you have a big authority website, there won't be no drop in rankings after the switch. Things will happen so fast that you won't even notice.

Anyway, be sure that you do everything Google suggests to do after the changes of protocols (pointing to it in both Analytics and Webmaster tools).
You can even go back to the old console and do "fetch as google" for the most important pages on your websites, to "help" google crawl the new structure faster.