Traffic Droped After Applying SSL Cert

10 years ago

I'd imagine Google sees the https site as a brand new site, and the 301's aren't passing juice yet. 301's can typically take 1-4 weeks for the full effect to be seen. I'd perhaps wait another week to see what happens.

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Rehmat

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Icematikx

I'd imagine Google sees the https site as a brand new site, and the 301's aren't passing juice yet. 301's can typically take 1-4 weeks for the full effect to be seen. I'd perhaps wait another week to see what happens.

I wish my traffic returns back

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sanspeak

10 years ago

hi,

we also applied the SSL certificate. but our traffic did not decreased. As said just wait for some time and do a cross check if everything was done right.

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Rehmat

10 years ago

Originally Posted by sanspeak

hi,

we also applied the SSL certificate. but our traffic did not decreased. As said just wait for some time and do a cross check if everything was done right.

Its good then. I have rechecked whole setup again and again and everything is perfect. I'll wait for a few days more and if traffic doesn't restore, I'll remove the SSL cert. For last 2 years, I never had any traffic loss and this is the first time I'm losing visitors. Thank you for your suggestion.

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Web Choice UK

10 years ago

To not risk losing visitors, you whould probably try out these.
Update SSL certificate(s).
Remove SSL from pages that don't need it (for example the landing page).
Keep an eye on when their current SSL certificates will expire.

Also, please go through this link - Expired SSL certificates can drive traffic away

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nik0

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Web Choice UK

To not risk losing visitors, you whould probably try out these.
Update SSL certificate(s).
Remove SSL from pages that don't need it (for example the landing page).
Keep an eye on when their current SSL certificates will expire.

Also, please go through this link - New SSL policy in Firefox hurting tens of thousands of sites

Nice article from 2008

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Web Choice UK 9 years ago

Originally Posted by nik0

Nice article from 2008

Thanks for noticing. That was a mistake. Hope this link helps - Expired SSL certificates can drive traffic away
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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

If your not using relative URLs then all your internal links will be messed up when you switch from http to https.

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Rehmat 10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

If your not using relative URLs then all your internal links will be messed up when you switch from http to https.

I replaced all hxxp://www.mysite.net to hxxps://www.mysite.net from phpMyAdmin and now things are seeming to get better. All internal links now contain https
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danparks

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Rehmat

Luckily, I chose a site where traffic wasn't too good. Around 6K visitors / day were there.

Unrelated to your SSL Cert, but I have to say that most people wouldn't say 180,000 visitors per month is low traffic. If I was doing a test that might affect traffic, I'd go with a site with far fewer visitors.

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Rehmat

10 years ago

Originally Posted by danparks

Unrelated to your SSL Cert, but I have to say that most people wouldn't say 180,000 visitors per month is low traffic. If I was doing a test that might affect traffic, I'd go with a site with far fewer visitors.

Agreed, the number is decent for many owners but in my case, only two sites are actively driving organic traffic. Other site is with around 50K unique visitors a day so now I'm feeling lucky that I didn't tried SSL over there

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npoint

10 years ago

You must be prepared to lose some link juice when you use 301, in most cases people loosking about 10% on this.

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John Hocking

10 years ago

Use google webmaster tools and use the fetch as googlebot on an SSL page to make sure there are no issues with Googlebot reading your SSL cert.

. For SSL certificates to be valid for your website, they need to match the name of the site. Common problems include expired SSL certificates and servers misconfigured such that all websites on that server use the same certificate. Most web browsers will try warn users in these situations, and Google tries to alert webmasters of this issue by sending a message via Webmaster Tools. The fix for these problems is to make sure to use SSL certificates that are valid for all your website's domains and subdomains your users will interact with.

You do not have to redirect every page to SSL. Only use SSL were the information needs to be secured.

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Rehmat

10 years ago

Originally Posted by John Hocking

Use google webmaster tools and use the fetch as googlebot on an SSL page to make sure there are no issues with Googlebot reading your SSL cert.

. For SSL certificates to be valid for your website, they need to match the name of the site. Common problems include expired SSL certificates and servers misconfigured such that all websites on that server use the same certificate. Most web browsers will try warn users in these situations, and Google tries to alert webmasters of this issue by sending a message via Webmaster Tools. The fix for these problems is to make sure to use SSL certificates that are valid for all your website's domains and subdomains your users will interact with.

You do not have to redirect every page to SSL. Only use SSL were the information needs to be secured.

Thank you for your tips. The SSL was really generating warnings on Chrome and Firefox running on Windows XP. I contacted the issuer and they provided me with a new CA Bundle code that fixed the issues. In webmaster tools, I have re-verified the site and now everything seems working fine.