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borsoisjc

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• Aug 8, 2017

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If I move my site to https, will it affect my backlink profile? Or google will update it automatically?

 

Gogol

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• Aug 8, 2017

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I would redirect all of the non https urls permanently to the https urls to be safe. As I understand, http and https are different versions in the eye of googlebot. Once you do that, your new urls will get the juice instead of the old url.

 

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risingstar9695

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• Aug 9, 2017

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when you activate SSL certificate to your domain it will be secure and changed to https. others remain same no problem

 

Michelle91

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• Aug 10, 2017

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I totally agree with Gogol.

It is safer to do so. Nothing to lose.

 

Soucha

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• Aug 12, 2017

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You can lose a good bit of traffic for a few weeks but as long as you do redirects it should return to normal, or even better, since ssl is a ranking signal now.

 

timothyc3r

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• Aug 12, 2017

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borsoisjc said:

If I move my site to https, will it affect my backlink profile? Or google will update it automatically?

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You will lose some backlinks.