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I think you are confusing your self a bit there. Once you 301 redirect it, all the authority is redirected too. you don't need to worry about putting a page or anything on it.

Google will re-crawl the links find the link redirects and then move the authority over to the new location.

I'm going to give my opinion more than a list of pros and cons, most people who switch over tend to see a drop in traffic and if you don't ensure you get it all right it can be a nightmare so make sure you've got your plan ready.

Are you sure most "clients" know what https is? Most people outside our world have no idea what it is combine with the fact that the so called ranking boost has yet to be well documented it can be fairly certain its tiny.

Now it is possible that your clients know what it is and will see it and go to your site but in most cases I suspect like the ranking boost other factors would play a bigger role. My advice is to really make sure you have all the bases covered for your transfer. Also wanted to point out in the future it may be a bigger factor.

As for advice on people who have already done it oodles of info here on Moz here are a few -

http://moz.com/community/q/http-to-https-transition-large-drop-in-search-traffic

http://moz.com/community/q/https-sitewide-move-has-resulted-in-huge-rankings-drop

http://moz.com/community/q/authority-site-drastic-ranking-drop-after-google-https-switch-please-help

Obviously people tend to come here for problems more than a shout out for how great it is so don't take that as a massive negative and all of the above is my opinion I'm sure some others will give other opinions and I don't want you to be put off just to be aware that there is a lot to cover in a switch over.

Ouch! You would need to get some sort of code other than 200 to fire a 404 or 301 would be best as you can direct users, you can also try to block those URLs via robots i suppose, and the third option you can try depending on what you can do is a rel=canonical link pointing towards the correct page which would help all seems a bit manual though might be worth seeing if there is a longer term solution.

in an ideal world a 301 would be perfect (or at a min rel=canonical tag).

Your main site is index when I'm looking, you've blocked some of your pages with a noindex and nofollow tag in your meta robots which wont be helping you

e.g. https://www.mudlifeled.com/product-category/aurora-d-series/

try to remove the meta robots tag, (this overrides the robots.txt)

Good news your main page is indexed by Google, also if you do have to noindex a page at least it follow.

EDIT I also assume you don't have any sort of manual penalty and that you have checked

a canonical link would work better and mean you're not shooting your self in the foot so much see more here -

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

how does fetch as Google work out for you?  Did you also review what you were doing prior to this happening to see if a change you made has triggered this?

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One quick thought did you set up https redirects on the main homepage correctly and that's whats causing you an issue?

You can check here - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

your site >Search Traffic > Manual actions

I am located in the UK, however I am also finding it odd.

Couple of things I'd look into is to claim both http & https in webmaster tools, rather than block the robots, change it for a canonical tag which tells Google you're preferred domain and also can help with your link juice flow.

Have to admit I'm in a bit of a pickle though..

No the canonical makes the robots surplus, it tells Google its a duplicate of where ever you pointed the tag to, this also means any links also sort of get redirected too (in a sense)

I'm a little stumped, as it should be working (and is for me) you could try giving it a bit more time with that canonical to take affect. I've tried looking via a proxy and i can't see it in American search compared to the UK search.

did you try looking through here - http://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed 

It could have just needed some more time for the canonical to work, still a bit on the odd side of things..

Matt Cutts has said (source:http://youtu.be/Vi-wkEeOKxM )  not to worry too much about duplicate content especially with the sheer volume of it there is on the internet. You may find you're looking more like you are trying to cheat Google or similar which could cause you a bigger head ache not to mention you may slow your webapge down, duplicate content isn't the worse enemy for seo.  If you are worried put all the effort of trying to hide stuff from Google into making the product description unique.

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Hi Tom,

To break it down into the two areas:

Option A

Pagination - Google recommends this option it involves a similar set up that you have at the moment (the above links can help with this) you might find you canonical each page to its self perhaps but for the most part canonical is not used. Pros of this is its within Google guidelines and all content is indexed, the negative is that all the content is indexed and you might not have a way to get the page you want ranked (but you can tweak this)

Option B

You canonical all the pagination pages to a category page, this is not within Google guidelines as the pages are not duplicated nor would they really have duplicated content (with some exceptions). This bonus of this is technically you can sculpt all the link juice from all the pages to one place but the negative of this is you don't have a lot of content indexed.

Personal I'm in favor of option A, its in the guidelines its what the whole thing was designed for and if done correctly shouldn't cause you too many problems. The second option whilst i can work can also backfire especially if you not a large company and like most things is a matter of weighing up the pros and cons.

Hope that somewhat helps give you an idea. Really with the canonical (with some exceptions) its an either or scenario.

Hi Lesley,

Interesting indeed, I'd agree with the colours etc. having a canonical as essentially it would be Duplicated but when writing I was assuming unique products under each category (e.g. TV's each with different size or brand). This might also encompass filters etc. but it depends on how far down that road you want to go. I assume Tom's problem is more for just a categories with X pages all with unique things in. Hopefully you find the above somewhat helpful Tom!

Good conversation thanks Lesley.

If you've got two local pages it gets a bit more complicated, you can mark one (the new one i assume) as duplicated which should mean its deleted,  I was under the impression you had a brand page and were attempting to claim a local page, you can see some more info on an older post here - https://moz.com/community/q/can-a-google-local-listing-be-merged-with-a-goolge-page

You can also see more information here - https://support.google.com/business/answer/6010825?hl=en This should enable you to set your primary page.

Hope some of that helps.

Good luck, look forward to hearing how you get on.

Hi,

I was more hinting towards not to bulk disavow and ensure you review each site but most of them (quickly looking over) hardly seem thrilling I'd keep

bitly.com (you list it twice) and delicious.com, one is just a url shortner and the other is just a social share site, shouldn't really do you much harm.

I'm also not saying your disavow list is bad just want to ensure you're not disavowing anything that isn't technically bad for you.

In Ahref I see:

Backlinks759Referring Domains83So don't panic just because you can't see them in Google doesn't mean they are not being counted!Hope that helps a bit, i'm sure some other users here in Moz will also have some great advice too!

You can also try Miriam who is a bit of a local guru: https://moz.com/about/team/miriamellis for ideas. Sorry to hear you didn't have much luck with your call..

Howdy Heidi,

Thanks for comming to Moz! There are a few solutions for problems I'll try to give you mine for your problem.

You have two urls above:

http://www.mysite.com/classes/textures/?tab=register

http://www.mysite.com/classes/textures/?tab=homework

To me these look like two filters for one page (http://www.mysite.com/classes/textures/) so lets assume the content is the same for this page?

Now you have a canonical tag going here -https://www.mysite.com/courses/texture-classes"/>

This is a third url unrelated, this is fine if all these are duplicates and you want the canonical link to rank.

To make this all a little easier to under stand lets look at the canonical link:

its purpose is if you have duplicate content on pages (e.g. the same content but maybe its for different colours) you would use the canonical to point duplicate to one main page (say the original).

Now you can use this as an easier way to maange duplicate content especially for query base urls (a url with? in it like above).

Another option is to look at the pages (see 2 above) and ensure they are unique with content and meta tags etc.

There is a great tool called screaming frog which is very handy for helping find duplicate content as well as working out if its been fixed (you can recrawl as many times as you like) its free up to 500 urls

Lastly: if you fix something you have to wait as it can take a little while for it to appear as "fixed" in Google Webmaster tools (search console)

I hope that helps, and was what you were asking. I'm sure some other helpful Mozzers will also give some great ideas too!

Can't help you with the error on Moz I'd guess its down to the weird ending of that url but you can check if its indexed by putting the url into Google (it is indexed) You can also try Screaming frog for a quick fix on checking optimization.