Http VS https and google crawl and indexing ?
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Is it true that https pages are not crawled and indexed by Google and other search engines as well as http pages?
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Thanks for your answer.
To be more specific I got to ask this direct question:
Is it better to keep https for Transactions pages only while keeping the rest of the website as http? This is for a Travel Reservations website.
Looking at Major Travel websites like Travelocity and Orbitz they are designed this way.
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some sites are indexed as https for whatever reason like this one:
This is usually do to incorrect coding of a site and when google crawls https pages it hits relative links and continues to crawl as https. This can cause the site to get indexed both ways and cause duplicate content issues.
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Just search for "Bank of America" in Google or Bing. Both Google and Bing has indexed its https version of URL means https pages are crawled by search engines.
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