Switched to Https. How do I update on Webmaster tools?

I have changed my site to https. Now I don't know what to do next in webmaster tools.

I’m sure recommendation is to add the https version as a new property, because there is no way to inform google of this change.

And of course make sure you got a 301 from http to https.

Also, I read somewhere that you should keep a property in webmaster tools for each version of your site (http, https, www) , I don’t have the source for this though, and I’m not sure it’s necessry.

you’ll have to add new property with HTTPS. So you’ll have HTTP and HTTPS.

updating your .htaccess file to redirect incoming links to the new individual https pages is a good idea. there are several threads on BHW covering this.

davids355 said:

Also, I read somewhere that you should keep a property in webmaster tools for each version of your site (http, https, www) , I don’t have the source for this though, and I’m not sure it’s necessry.

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Yeah, I usually add every version of my websites as a separate Google Search Console property. So when you have HTTPs set up, you add the following properties:

• HTTP www
• HTTP non-www
• HTTPS non-www
• HTTPS www

Google recommends to this here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332964?hl=en

Add your site to Search Console. Be sure to add all variations of your site root URL, including www and non-www versions, and all subdomain variations (example.com, m.example.com, pets.example.com). When you add your site to Search Console, we refer to it as a property. That's because Search Console supports both websites and apps.

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You're supposed to add those versions to ensure that you corretly 301 redirected the HTTP versions of your website to whichever HTTPs version you selected. After some time, the HTTPs version will be indexed and you should see the HTTP version's page become deindexed.

If you want to track specific folders, you can do that as well by creating another property, as explained by Google here.

This is the code I added to my htaccess file. It's the only one that worked, but I don't know if the code is okay.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.site.pro/$1 [R=301,L]

fasttrak said:

updating your .htaccess file to redirect incoming links to the new individual https pages is a good idea. there are several threads on BHW covering this.

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Please take a look at my last post.

Hiobot said:

This is the code I added to my htaccess file. It's the only one that worked, but I don't know if the code is okay.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.site.pro/$1 [R=301,L]

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I have been using

# Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

However, following what @Zwielicht said regarding having ALL properties added in Google Search Console is also a good idea. I basically followed that process, added the above to .htaccess and used the cpanel option to 301 redirect to HTTPS (namecheap).

Moved about 10 of my sites to HTTPS 4 weeks ago and the redirects worked instantly. GSC picked up the HTTPS version of the site within a week or 2 within the SERPS. Now HTTP version is non existent and HTTPS is doing nicely.

In all honesty, I have not seen much of a serp improvement yet but it might give a slight boost, who knows. I have Amazon affiliate sites, so whilst I am not taking any user information or payments, I think it looks better to the user and conversions have increased but then again it is the holiday period, so expected that anyway.

HTH

yes update it via web master tools, add the h t t p s