HTTPS site in Open Site Explorer

[Equatorites]

I'm looking at a site for which the https URL currently ranks in Google. Using a header checker on the http URL I see that it is being 302 redirected to the https version (I have no control or input on this site).

In OSE there's no option to specify an https URL as the http part is pre-populated and uneditable. My question is: does OSE treat the https and http version as the same URL? I'm guessing so as the http URL has a lot of domain authority despite not being the "default" URL.

[USHoleInOne]

I would make your redirect a 301, not a 302.

OSE should treat them as the same, its just a secure version of your site, there is no duplicate content, its the same site.

[caseyhen]

Hi, currently OSE does not handle HTTPS request but it's on the road map to be complete in the future.  When our crawler for OSE crawls the web it currently does not crawl HTTPS pages, hence they are not included as an option to pull from.  This hopefully will be coming in the next few months as we just added it to our web app.

[Equatorites]

Thanks. As mentioned, the site isn't ours or (currently) one of our clients.

[Equatorites]

Thanks. It's a finance site and they've decided to make the entire visible site on https, not just specific pages. The http URL redirects to the https version.

[Equatorites]

Thanks. It's a finance site and they've decided to make the entire visible site on https, not just specific pages. The http URL redirects to the https version.