Redirect social media links to https?

[corusent]

Hi fellow SEO-ers!

One of the sites I'm responsible for uses a Twitter or Facebook feed on most of their pages, next to their unique content. As the tweets (twits?) and comments in some of these feeds are old, they still refer to the old Twitter and Facebook-domains using http (instead of https). These links are all automatically 301-redirected, but still make up ca. 9% of the links on the site.

Do you think that this affects SEO? I doubt it, because I suppose that Google has seen this many times and understands that these links are still pointing to the same content. Although my client is prepared to write a script to auto-update all these links, I think it won't make a difference.

What do you think? Thanks for your feedback!

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

These are fine - Google claims to not crawl these and even then, Google doesn't devalue redirects any more or less than a link (but it can overtime or if there are multiple), so one from on site won't hurt you.

I would be more concerned about updating backlinks from other relevant sites and making sure your internal links / sitemap.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[corusent]

Thanks Patrick,

That's what I thought. Sitemaps, link sculpting, canonicals, prev/nxt, rich snippets, social metatags, and external and internal redirects are all covered. It'll be interesting to see what this site will do after some massive changes!

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

Just a quick update here from Google. I recommend reading!

Hope this helps more - good luck!