Help! Google indexing https instead of http

Barnsy · 03-20-2009, 04:49 PM

Hi Everyone,

I hope someone can help me out. I've recently launched a website and the good news is that Google is indexing it. The problem is that it seems to only be indexing the https version.

The site does make use of SSL (https) for pages such as the login and registration page, but the homepage and pretty much everything else should be just using http.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get google to index the non-encrypted pages only?

Thanks!

jtrag · 03-20-2009, 05:35 PM

Hello,

Here's a great article that should help you out with this problem

I hope this helps...

Preventing Search Engine Indexing Of Secure Pages

Barnsy · 03-20-2009, 05:54 PM

Thank you so much!

dburk · 03-20-2009, 08:43 PM

Hi Barnsy,

You can now use the link rel="canonical" metatag to tell the search engines which version of your url to include in their index.

Here's a video by Matt Cutts that goes into details and explains how to resolve the issue easily with this tag:

About rel="canonical" - Webmasters/Site owners Help

03-20-2009, 04:49 PM	#1
Barnsy Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 24 Thanks: 13 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Help! Google indexing https instead of http Hi Everyone, I hope someone can help me out. I've recently launched a website and the good news is that Google is indexing it. The problem is that it seems to only be indexing the https version. The site does make use of SSL (https) for pages such as the login and registration page, but the homepage and pretty much everything else should be just using http. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get google to index the non-encrypted pages only? Thanks!

03-20-2009, 05:35 PM	#2
jtrag EZInternetMarketing.com War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: USA Posts: 204 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 313 Thanked 28 Times in 26 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Help! Google indexing https instead of http Hello, Here's a great article that should help you out with this problem I hope this helps... Preventing Search Engine Indexing Of Secure Pages

03-20-2009, 05:54 PM	#3
Barnsy Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 24 Thanks: 13 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Help! Google indexing https instead of http Thank you so much!

03-20-2009, 08:43 PM	#4
dburk Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 4,647 Thanks: 163 Thanked 673 Times in 583 Posts Contact Info	Re: Help! Google indexing https instead of http Hi Barnsy, You can now use the link rel="canonical" metatag to tell the search engines which version of your url to include in their index. Here's a video by Matt Cutts that goes into details and explains how to resolve the issue easily with this tag: About rel="canonical" - Webmasters/Site owners Help
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