Move a Wordpress Site to HTTPS with Bluehost

[Dreamrealemedia]

HI Guys,

do you think that the following guide is enoght to move a bluehost wordpress site to https in a seo best practive way?

https://www.shoutmeloud.com/free-ssl-certificate-bluehost-hosting.html

Basically their steps are:

1. Install SSL on Bluehost panel

2. Install Really Simple SSL Wp Plugin

3. Edit Your .htacess File & Add The Code For HTTP To HTTPS Redirection

4. Update All HTTP URLs In Database To HTTPS Using Search and Replace Plugin

5. Use Broken Link Checker plugin & use its redirection module to find links to 3rd party sites with HTTP that should now be HTTPS.

6. Last thing to do

   • Submit your new HTTPS site to Google Search Console & submit your sitemap.
   • Update your profile link on Google Analytics.
   • Update your website links on social media profiles & anywhere else they exist. This step you can do in pieces in the coming days.
   • Read this guide to learn more about HTTP to HTTPS migration & fixing mixed content.
   • If you disabled Who.Is guard for your domain name, you can enable it now.

Do you know a better practical guide for wordrpess? in term of usefull plugins to handle the migration?

Tx to everyone!

[Dreamrealemedia]

Also, how I need to deal with redirects (301) I've created previously to the ssl migration?

Do I need to update the redirects with ssl or do i have to create new redirects?

[TucsonAZWebDesign]

In the sense of SEO, to the best of my knowledge SSL certificates, and methodization of acquiring whether, paid, provided by CloudFlare, granted by Certbot, or directly implemented with Apache using conf file, whatever method utilized will have the same benefits to your SEO.

The instructional seems to be basic and should work. I personally use cloud flare and add their generated SSL cert to have 2 way encryption and the boost to my speed with their CDN/Proxy is amazing, never had a complaint

[Jesper-Bak-SEO-specialist]

Hi there

If you make a force https redirect, all youre old redirects will be automaticly forced to https, but i would recommend you if you used http:// in the redirect string to update this to https://, since you will reduce the redirecs on youre site.

Google and users rly dont like redirects, so try to update the links you have out there on other sites instead, but ofc. a redirect is better than a link ending up with an 404 and thats why we need to use the 301 and 302 redirects.

For rest of the guide to move youre site to SSL, that is actually a great and fully working guide. So follow it and go ahead with the transfer

[litoginamaaba333]

How we can change my SQL database upload setting. To migrate our site from one host to another host.

if you have any tips and trick please share with us.