Webmaster tools question
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Hi all.
I have a question regarding http vs https. I have an https site and was wondering how to tell google in Webmaster tools to combine and use https. I have setup all sites in Webmaster tools. Both www and non www for both http and https. I see where to set up the www vs the non www but don't quite understand how to do the https part. I want all traffic to:
https://www-creative -technology-solutions.com
Thanks
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That's pretty much it. Wordpress is pretty easy to setup with https.
As for the question of this thread. You already did it since you inserted all versions to GWT.Google will do the rest as long as you've properly set all to direct to https.
Youll see your webmaster stats for http drop like a fly to https and youll see an (almost) instant upwards with your line in your https impressions.
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Anyone?
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I have this entered in my Wordpress .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^23.229.174.140
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.creative-technology-solutions.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#Force www:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^creative-technology-solutions.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.creative-technology-solutions.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
This in Wordpress settings:
WordPress Address (URL) https://www.creative-technology-solutions.com
Site Address (URL) https://www.creative-technology-solutions.com
Is there anything else I need to set and how?
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Use the canonical URL and the 301 redirect. Should preserve most, if not all, of the pagerank.
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I only want https://www.creative-technology-solutions.com to be used. I started with http and purchased a certificate awhile back and want google to only see the https. Is there a way to combine them so domain authority from http is applied to the https. I never used non www.
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Hi there
If your site is https, your internal links reflect this protocol, your sitemap is https, and is uploaded properly to Google Webmaster Tools, Google will have no issue seeing that it's https.
Run a crawl of your site through ScreamingFrog to see if they catch any internal redirects or links with http or non www so those can be fixed.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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You should set these up separately in GWT. If you want to have these combined, you should use use mod_rewrite to direct http to https. Is there a reason you are using http and https?
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