HTTPS vs HTTP

[Nik0]

I don't think Google prioritize https over http in the results order (yet). If it looks so that's more a coincidence as a lot of sites have already switched.

I have switched to https for couple of sections on my site where paid stuff is located and it went all seamless, Google updated all indexed pages to https:// very fast.

[PROFRBcom]

It's day 5 since we upgraded the main site to HTTPS (and new fast hosting). I have set canonical to https:// on main page, updated xml sitemap to generate https addresses, added https to GA and WMT and made them preferred, and 301'd the old http:// and www. versions of the site to the new https version... I even went to WMT and put in a few crawl+render+index requests to our most popular pages new https:// versions.

Yet still all the SERPS are returning HTTP://EXAMPLE.COM (our prior canonical). How long does it typically take Google/Y/B to start returning https:// results in the SERPS? I'm starting to wonder if somehow I overlooked something...

I suppose I spoke too soon. Started getting data and https results last night. Strangely though, the pages that are starting to rank with https results are all old pages from 2012! No money pages, just garbage pages. Thanks for the priortization big G! I'm going to go noindex, follow all of those garbage pages now and hopefully speed up the crawling of the https pages.

[casionmark]

Ok, we completed the switch to HTTPS 2 days ago. I still don't see HTTPS in SERPS. Also I notice in Search Console index status our number of indexed pages has around doubled. Should I be concerned here? Should we be redirecting old pages or to HTTPS?

[gameconcierge]

Depends on your short/long term targets.
HTTPS ranks better.
However, when you switch, you will probably lose rankings which might take a couple of weeks.
If you already have huge traffic, well... I wouldn't risk.
If you feel like you are just in the beginning of the marathon.... Go for it.

[wonderpunter]

I finally switched my sports site over, having previously done the casino last year.. will the https has been crawling but not indexed for a while so hoping for a quick index.. and hopefully hold onto rankings

[PROFRBcom]

I finally switched my sports site over, having previously done the casino last year.. will the https has been crawling but not indexed for a while so hoping for a quick index.. and hopefully hold onto rankings

I'm 7 days in and saw almost every one of our pages was crawled a few days ago, and 2 days after that 2/3rds of them were crawled again. I haven't gotten the Search Console data in yet to see what changed, but our traffic is up, and all our stats are better only seven days post https upgrade. Very few of my money pages are showing in SERPS as https at this point... it's as if Google is updating the SERPS for the worst/shortest/oldest/least visited pages, bottom up, instead of the best pages and working its way down heh.

I'm encouraged by the traffic results thusfar (it could also have something to do with our hosting being faster as we moved hosts at the same time we enabled HTTPS:

[wonderpunter]

just switched.. noticed the https links showing up in the serps already.. some have dropped a few paces... but last time i did this it all came back up,

[hcgroup]

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[joc]

There is no doubt that https is included in one of the elements constituting the google ranking. But there are things that did not affect the ranking even if changed.
Now it's like this ...
In the future, https will become stronger certainly.

[hcgroup]

Exactly. Google take cares of the searchers' security and user experience. So a properly configured HTTPS site will contribute to your ranking success...

There is no doubt that https is included in one of the elements constituting the google ranking. But there are things that did not affect the ranking even if changed.
Now it's like this ...
In the future, https will become stronger certainly.

[joc]

Your opinion is correct. I think so, too.

[hcgroup]

Thanks a lot for your kindness...

Your opinion is correct. I think so, too.

[zaekyt]

Https is the future, so everyone has to do it soon or later

[hcgroup]

Exactly. So it is better to take the front seats as "Early bird catches the warm!"

Cheers!

Https is the future, so everyone has to do it soon or later

[CasinoSolutions]

We have been switching our websites to https since the beginning of the year and see traffic increase. Google has officially announced that using a HTTPS is a ranking factor and I think this is the case.

[JS128]

We are slowly transitioning all our sites over to https but have not yet noticed much difference.

[hcgroup]

You have to transform the whole site all at once otherwise you will see harm from this rather than waiting for the positive effect.

[ApostaGanha]

HTTPS you dont imagine how much you will gain with that

[BettingFinder]

https is the best option, Google is taking it as a ranking factor too.

Move to HTTPS isn’t going to give you a huge increase you’re ranking on Google, but is part of the algorithm requirements. Like the “extra point”

[JS128]

Oh absolutely. That's what I meant when I said "slow transitioning", but thanks for the reminder. ^.^