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Marcus,

Ok, I think my confusion started when google displayed google as www but then it redirected to https. I've recently found out this happens when your logged in to google so that explains that.

One last question, if I change my certificate to WWW will my SERP show this or will it still say https://www.mysite.com. If I want to get rid of https from showing will that mean I have to take the certificate from the homepage and just have it on the relevant pages of my website?

Hi Sanket,

Thanks for your reply. If I change my webmaster tools settings to a preferred domain of www, this is like a rel=canonical?

I don't think I quite got the answer I'm looking for.

Basically I want to display mysite which is https://mysite.com as www.mysite.com in the SERP. I need to keep the site as https://mysite.com though as the certificate I have is for that and not WWW

Thanks for your response.

Hi,

I've looked all over for this, maybe I am searching for the wrong thing but here is my question.

My site is https://mysite.com yet I want it to display as www.mysite.com in the SERP. Is this possible? I realise people like secure but I would rather display it as www because I believe people are going to skip over a result (sometimes) if it they are not sure what the https is.

My SSL certificate is for mysite.com, would my issue be resolved if I bought it for www.mysite.com instead?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I am trying to compare a website that has a url of e.g. https://mysite.com on Open Site Explorer. Any idea how to do this?

It will only compare it when I use www and it also doesn't accept https.

So I am comparing www.mysite.com which has redirects on it https://mysite.com but I am worried it's not comparing the right stats?

If this makes sense and you can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

This has given me something to focus on, I know most of this stuff in the back on my head but haven't understood where to go. This is great. Thanks again

Thanks for your answer Kevin, that sums things up nicely for me.

Going on from what you have said, what should I focus on as a guide, either total links or total external followed links? I will view them more generally now as a comparison to my competitors.

Also, when you say 'good links' there is no tab for this (obviously, although that would be nice) so how would you know which were good/bad?

Hi,

I'm using Site Explorer to research my website but the stats don't have up!

Page Specific - External Followed Links: 11
Sub Domain - External Followed Links: 40
Root Domain - External Followed Links: 40

Total links: 1,733
Total links on webmaster tools: 781

How does this add up? Why am I getting varied results.. And what is the difference between Page, Sub and Root when I only tested www.mysite.com?

Any help would be great!

Shaun