Do links going to HTTP benefit HTTPS domain authority?

[TVape]

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[aarongray]

the 100 links will still help as long as the http is 301 to https.

Is the whole site on https?

[TVape]

No, half is on http and half is on https. the links are mainly coming through the http. https got decimated in rankings after moving it from its original location were it ranked well (subdomain). now the subdomain got all 301, but it seems that we not only lost the all the value we could have gotten through the main domain being more linked to, but we also are not getting the previous rankings.

[aarongray]

Is there a reason for not having it all on https?

Also how long has it been since the above was done?

As I don't know the whole story it's hard for me to say what to do but if there is no major reason for having it broken up I would move the whole site onto https and insure all of the 301's are setup right. Insure the URL on http is 301 to https.

Sometimes in SEO it's better to keep it simple and clean. As its easier for the user and google.

[TVape]

Good call, i have been thinking the same thing. It has been 6 months and the results have been pretty stable since the first week after the migration. stably bad, LOL. The reason was that I we were worried that we are going to distroy the ranking of our money pages on the cannabis vaporizer ecommerce site and that we had the project focused on the wordpress CMS not magento.

have you heard of any successful http to https migration. The best cases I have heard of, didnt see a noticeable pick up in SERPs. So if I read many cases with negative effects and there is no positive upside, well in finance we would go short (not migrate).

Anybody having a positive story with HTTPS migration and how links on http benefited https pages as well?

[aarongray]

I have had  few clients move 100% to HTTPS and nothing bad happen as in going backwards and I won't lie I haven't seen great gain from it either. I haven't heard of anyone getting great gains from it but not moving the whole site to it is most likely doing more bad than good. Also if you have gone backwards after moving to HTTPS there could be errors. too.

I would do the following:

• Move the whole site to HTTPS
• Check that HTTPS is setup right. Can do this at http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php
• Review any errors in webmaster tools or use a tool like semrush to check for errors.
• Insure all 301 from http to https is setup right and leave it for a month and see what happens.