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    • anthonytjm
      anthonytjm last edited by

      We have a site that was ranking well and recently dropped in traffic and ranking. The whole site is https and and not just the shopping pages. Thats the way the server is setup, they make whole site https.

      My manager thinks the drop in ranking is due to google not crawling https. I think contrary, but would like some feedback on this. Site is here

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      • irvingw
        irvingw last edited by

        I would tell your webmaster to fix the site, and make only the pages needing to be secure https.

        also:

        Checked link: http://www.dogtagsinc.com

        Type of redirect: 302 Found

        Redirected to: https://www.dogtagsinc.com/

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        • Vizergy
          Vizergy last edited by

          Google crawls and indexes secure pages - for instance, your https website has 128 pages indexed in Google.  I agree with Mr. Weiss that your site needs to be fixed however - especially the temporary redirect from http to https.  Was your entire website only recently moved to https and then you lost ranking or has it always been https?  I feel you probably have some other issues going on besides the secure socket layer.  For instance, almost every link in your footer nav has 'dog tags' in it.  Kind of spammy to me....

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          • anthonytjm
            anthonytjm last edited by

            Thanks for the replies. Think we have the http fixed and will work on footer area next. Thanks again for the heads up.

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