What is the proper way to handle a fully https site transition from an http site

[AllStateBanners]

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[seanginnaw]

It looks like the https version of that particular page in your example is a 404 page - you need to ensure that the content you're pointing these 301 redirects to actually exists on your servers.

[HiveDigitalInc]

http://www.allstatebanners.com/custom-rectangle-stickers  redirects to  https://www.allstatebanners.com/custom-rectangle-stickers .. which is a 404 page...

Google generally reports these when they find a link pointing to a 404 page... which means there is a link pointing to the http URL which returns a 404.

Click on the "linked from" menu on this page - http://d.pr/i/vn8M  and see where the inbound link is coming from.  It looks like that particular 404 has been around for a long time.   I recommend cleaning those up on the new site, and marking them all as fixed in the http site and see if they pop back up again.

Hope this helps!

Jake Bohall

[AllStateBanners]

But why would google webmaster account http pick this up? I would assume that it would be picked up as a 404 on the https site, not on both, since there is a 301 redirect on the http site.

[HiveDigitalInc]

It might eventually be picked up if/when G recrawls the original linking URL.

HTTP is picking it up, because this link points to HTTP, and it was obviously a 404 there for at least the last 9 months.

[AllStateBanners]

gotcha. Ok so the best action is to correct these on the https site and mark them as fixed on the http site on google webmaster?

Also out of those 3800 404s about 3500 of them are coming from here http://gameon.timesonline.com -> for some reason there is a redirect to our site and whatever link they have, we get hammered as a 404. see http://d.pr/i/v3Rr

I am in contact with them to stop making that redirect. But how do I handle this after it stops? If I click mark as fixed... the 404 will still occur if google goes to those url paths. This is troubling to me on how google operates in this case since its an external link thats causing it.

[HiveDigitalInc]

Are you in anyway related to that "Beaver Country" game?  I'm not sure why they would be 301 redirecting that subdomain to you...  It has links from Apple, etc. related to that particular game.

If you do have a page/content or something else that would be related to that particular site, then, but aren't the "new" version of that site, you might try a blanket redirect for traffic from that referrer to the related page on your site.  e.g.  adding something like this to htaccess..

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .gameon.timesonline.com.$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.allstatebanners.com/some-page

Note.. I have not tested the above code.. but it should give you the basic idea of redirecting all traffic from that referrer to a specific page of your site...  You could also use that same logic to simply block all the referral traffic altogether.

-Jake Bohall