Question #3) My last question has to do with Some SEOmoz crawl diagnostics -

[TylerAbernethy]

I recently fixed (or well, I am asking to make sure that this was the right thing to do in my first question posted a few minutes ago), a problem where all of my internal main sidebar category pages were linking using https://, which to my knowledge means SECURE pages.

anyways, OSE, and google seem to be not recognizing the link juice.

but my rank fell for one of my main keywords by 2 positions about a week after i made the fix to have the pages be indexable.

Making my pages properly linked can't be a bad thing right?

That's what I said.

So I looked deeper, and my crawl diagnostics reports showed a MASSIVE reduction in warnings (about 3,000 301 redirects were removed by changing the https:// to http:// because all the secure pages were re-directing to http:// regular structure)

and an INCREASE, in Duplicate Page Titles, and Temporary redirects...

Could that have been the reason the rank dropped?

I think I am going to fix all the Duplicate Page Title problems tonight, but still, I am a little confused as to why such a major fix didn't help and appeared to hurt me.

I feel like it hurt the rank, not because of what I did, but because what I did caused a few extra re-directs, and opened the doors for the search engine to discover more pages that had problems (which could have triggered an algo that says hey, these people have to much duplicate problems)

Any thoughts will be GREATLY appreciated  thumbed, thanked, and marked as best answers!

Thanks in advance for your time,

Tyler A.