Is it bad for seo to have ecommerce on http and subfolder blog on https?

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[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I would do a couple of things. Take a look at these resources:
Web Site Migration Guide - Tips For SEOs (Moz)
Move your site (Google)

Make sure you go through each line item and make sure you made your move accordingly.

I would also perform a backlink audit to see if you need to remove or disavow any backlinks.

From there, check your internal links and sitemap to make sure that they reflect the new site URL structure.

For me, I would have the whole site on https - especially since it has been deemed a ranking factor (albeit a small one) and has the potential to increase rankings.

Run through these items or let me know if you already have. Hope this helps - good luck!

[evolvingSEO]

Patrick's answer is solid. Just to explain a little further about internal links

• Run a crawl on your site with Screaming Frog or the Moz Crawler. Look for 301/302's in internal links. You want to absolutely be linking internally to the final 200 URLs. If you did not update internal links to point to the new URLs, that's what could be happening there.

• Semi-related - I'd link internally with absolute URLs (the full URL path) - because if you have one link to the http blog, and http does not redirect to https - now you have double the crawling going on.

• Which reminds me ... is https for the blog enforced? ie: does http blog redirect to httpS blog URLs? And vice versa? httpS for Magento redirects to http URLs?

• Lastly - look for redirect chains to undo - which is explained in my article. There's lost link equity and crawl efficiency with redirect chains.

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Hi Patrick,

I read through your post and we went through the first two links. So i can confirm we did those things properly.

we haven't done a backlink audit, which i will be looking into next. Our link profile is pretty decent. should i still spend the time to go through and get rid of low DA links (anything below 15 DA as per MOZ, maybe?).

I wrote a msg below for Dan that is partially addressed to you too. Regarding internal links, i wrote what we did and are doing there. that is in line with what both of you are saying.

Regarding moving the whole site onto https, I am just worried since this partial move turned out as a partial failure (LOL). Read the last part of the reply to Dan below. Your feedback there would be highly appreciated Patrick.

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day!

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Also, i only have 2-4 links out of 200 or so that should be disavowed. That should not even be necessary right, or would it still help?

[evolvingSEO]

Thanks for the reply!

#3 - that's not an issue as long as it's set up correctly in terms of internal linking etc

#4 - Thanks, yeah again I don't think you need to move things all back around again - just follow these basic principles:

• Internally links to 200s (not 301s)
• When you do set up 301s, try to avoid "chains" (like my post describes)
• Internally link with absolute URLs when possible so you don't accidentally link to the wrong thing (https instead of http etc)
• Force redirect http to https when you're preferring to load https and vice versa - in other words, users should only be able to access a singular consistent version of the URL.
• The blog on https and store on http is fine as long as you follow the above.

Lastly - don't forget to be registering the exact version of each 'site' in Webmaster Tools (Search Console). You need to register the blog as 'https://torontovaporizer.ca/blog/' individually and the store as 'http://torontovaporizer.ca' otherwise you won't see all the data for each.

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Thanks Dan!