website ranking drop after switching to https

Patty98 · 3 Apr 2019 at 14:19

Hey there, so I am running a website and recently I switched it from http to https because of Google and SEO. I also searched online said it's normal to experience ranking drop in the a few weeks but now few weeks passed already, I forwarded the site with 301 redirect and did the deadlink check, speed test, cache policy and most of the stuffs.. anybody knows is there any other factors behind?

daz · 4 Apr 2019 at 13:48

Can all visitors and crawlers still access the site? It might be your server/site is set to use a set of very modern ciphers, preventing some crawlers perhaps?

Scougar · 10 Apr 2019 at 03:50

There is no rhyme, reason or timeframe of when they will choose to fully crawl your website and rank you again. Make sure you have canonical links rather than multiple pages for the same thing... get your robots.txt file sorted etc.

Cooler running · 20 Apr 2019 at 04:35

As you say, using http now days is a bad idea.

Doing normal SEO things and ensuring there are no internal or external links to the http version should mean it will come back over time.
Due to secrecy nobody knows specifically why some of these issues happen, all you can do is follow best practice.

ChroniC · 6 May 2019 at 07:53

Have you resubmitted the site on search console and the site map based the https url?
When you say you did 301 redirects what do you mean as you shouldn't have to do that at all. Redirect would work at domain level so page-1.co.uk redirecting to page-2.co.uk, the protocol before is irrelevant. Unless you mean force redirecting http to https, like so.

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

What is the site and I can do a Seo audit on it. Have some nifty software for that.