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Duplicate Content? Http and Https

by EdwardDennis
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Let's say a website has SSL certificate installed, and Google index both http and https versions, is it considered as duplicate content? Thanks in advance.
#content #duplicate #http #https
  • Profile picture of the author OliviaSSLGuru
    If google index your pages with https then redirect them on global version whether you want http or https pages in search engines or else it won't work then use canonical tag to solve the issue. Wish you good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author EdwardDennis
      Originally Posted by OliviaSSLGuru View Post

      If google index your pages with https then redirect them on global version whether you want http or https pages in search engines or else it won't work then use canonical tag to solve the issue. Wish you good luck!
      So basically, it's FINE to have both versions as long as I use canonical tag?
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    No, there won't be any duplicate issue... the https version is for secure browsing.. Thus it is highly unlikely for a crawler to be able to discover the https version. Though http version is still easily discovered by crawler.. But the https part requires authentication and a crawler is unable to authenticate as a human.. That's why the https part is not found by a crawler.
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    • Profile picture of the author EdwardDennis
      Originally Posted by C Rebecca View Post

      No, there won't be any duplicate issue... the https version is for secure browsing.. Thus it is highly unlikely for a crawler to be able to discover the https version. Though http version is still easily discovered by crawler.. But the https part requires authentication and a crawler is unable to authenticate as a human.. That's why the https part is not found by a crawler.
      Not sure if ahref's crawler is more advanced than Google crawler, but ahref's crawler did pick up the https pages....
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    • Profile picture of the author UMS
      Originally Posted by C Rebecca View Post

      No, there won't be any duplicate issue... the https version is for secure browsing.. Thus it is highly unlikely for a crawler to be able to discover the https version. Though http version is still easily discovered by crawler.. But the https part requires authentication and a crawler is unable to authenticate as a human.. That's why the https part is not found by a crawler.

      Totally incorrect.

      Spiders/bots can read and index https pages just fine, so long as they aren't password protected.
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      • Profile picture of the author EdwardDennis
        Originally Posted by UMS View Post

        Totally incorrect.

        Spiders/bots can read and index https pages just fine, so long as they aren't password protected.
        UMS,

        Since they can read and index http and https pages, do they treat them as duplicate content?

        I'm still unsure about this. Any help would be much appreciated.
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