Https Duplicate Content

[RaviAhuja]

My previous host was using shared SSL, and my site was also working with https which I didn’t notice previously.

Now I am moved to a new server, where I don’t have any SSL and my websites are not working with https version.

Problem is that I have found Google have indexed one of my blog http://www.codefear.com with https version too. My blog traffic is continuously dropping I think due to these duplicate content. Now there are two results one with http version and another with https version.

I searched over the internet and found 3 possible solutions.

1 No-Index https version
2 Use rel=canonical
3 Redirect https versions with 301 redirection

Now I don’t know which solution is best for me as now https version is not working.

One more thing I don’t know how to implement any of the solution. My blog is running on WordPress.

Please help me to overcome from this problem, and after solving this duplicate issue, do I need Reconsideration request to Google.

Thank you

[Dr-Pete]

Unfortunately, I think this may not only be the best option, but the only option. You can't NOINDEX or use rel=canonical if the https pages aren't resolving, so you would have to do the redirects in .htaccess.

Unfortunately, messing with .htaccess for anything sitewide can get pretty tricky, and a little dangerous. I believe this code should work, but I'm not sure about any quirks in WordPress or specifics of your site implementation:

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php/topic/35833-how-do-i-redirect-https-to-http-on-my-site/

You may want a WordPress specialist to take a look.

[MichaelYork]

Redirect is the best option for you I believe, you will pass the majority of link juice if anybody has backlinked to the https version.

You will need to contact the host where your server is in order to get this implemented. Alternatively you can just resubmit your http site for index in Google via GWT and see how that goes.