Correct Indexing problem
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I recently redirected an old site to a new site. All the URLs were the same except the domain. When I redirected them I failed to realize the new site had https enable on all pages. I have noticed that Google is now indexing both the http and https version of pages in the results. How can I fix this? I am going to submit a sitemap but don't know if there is more I can do to get this fixed faster.
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Okay I may have understood your original post differently then what you meant.
So the case is you have HTTPS enabled, but Google is Indexing Both HTTP & HTTPS pages. However, you want them to only index the HTTP version. You are also running a cart or checkout which is only HTTPS which is likely not relevant to Google so I would recommend blocking those pages with robots.txt.
I would recommend coding an IF statement to deal with duplicate indexing (https & http) & setting up a robots.txt file to prevent crawling pages that have no value and are there for customer use only.
Something like this would work in php:
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_if ( isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) || (isset($SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($SERVER['HTTPS'])) == 'on' ) {echo ''."\n";}
else {echo ''."\n";}
?>_I'm not sure the code in asp since I rarely ever use Windows servers but you should be able to find that with Google.
Then setup your robots.txt to block all urls that are specific to personal data like this: (Example)
Disallow: /catalog/account.php
Disallow: /catalog/account_edit.php
Disallow: /catalog/account_history.php
Disallow: /catalog/account_history_info.php
Disallow: /catalog/account_password.php
Disallow: /catalog/add_checkout_success.php
Disallow: /catalog/address_book.php
Disallow: /catalog/address_book_process.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_confirmation.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_payment.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_process.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping_address.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_success.php
Disallow: /catalog/cookie_usage.php
Disallow: /catalog/create_account.phpI hope that helps
Don_
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My site should be running http on all pages except the checkout. Would this work the opposite of what you have written and I can make a rule for the checkout to allow https?
Thanks
jared
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If your site is running on https only, then a simple edit to your .htaccess file will correctly re-direct (301) any request for a http page to the correct https page.
Sample Code:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
There are several ways to handle this, so you may also benefit from Searching ".htaccess 301 redirect http to https"
Hope that helps.
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