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[the-gate-films]

We recently changed our eCommerce site to a https from a http and we have seen a slight drop in rankings.

Should we have not changed the who site over or was it the right call?

Thanks,

[O2C]

How long ago did you make the change?

People who have done similar have also reported a drop in rankings after switching, this will mainly be down to the backlink profile.

You would have (hopefully) had quite a good backlink profile with links going to your old http domain, so when you switch to your https domain it will have less links, even though you probably have a redirect in place from the http version it will not cary across 100% of the link juice.

Its important to try and change any backlinks that you have control over to point to your https version to make the most of them

Hope that makes sense

[the-gate-films]

We only did it a month or so ago.

I have contacted all the bloggers and asked them to change their link to the site.

Thanks for your help, I thought this was the case.