Google showing https:// page in search results but directing to http:// page
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We're a bit confused as to why Google shows a secure page https:// URL in the results for some of our pages. This includes our homepage. But when you click through it isn't taking you to the https:// page, just the normal unsecured page.
This isn't happening for all of our results, most of our deeper content results are not showing as https://.
I thought this might have something to do with Google conducting searches behind secure pages now, but this problem doesn't seem to affect other sites and our competitors.
Any ideas as to why this is happening and how we get around it?
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Hi,
This does seem to be a bit of a problem as I am not getting redirected to the non-HTTPS version of the site, and the HTTPS version is not loading CSS for me:
http://i.imgur.com/WoA66F4.png
http://i.imgur.com/T7pf7zU.png
You need to put or fix a 301 redirect on the HTTPS URLs (I take it it was working properly before?). Also place the canonical tag on each page, referencing itself with an HTTP URL.
Cheers,
Jane
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We have secure pages for login, on both desktop and mobile sites. The domains affected are icaew.com and economia.icaew.com. The main issue does appear to be with economia.icaew.com which appears to have a lot of https pages, although i'm not sure why this would affect icaew.com
Thanks for your help.
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Do you have any secure pages on your website at all? Do you have any secure pages on a mobile site that uses the same domain name? Also, could you provide the domain name?
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