Redirecting http to https, do I need to add new url to webaster tools?
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Hey all, we just 301 redirected all our http url's to https. I'm getting some funky data in webmaster tools, such as a drastic change in pages indexed and pages submitted over pages indexed. Might be a dumb question, but do I need to update my website in webmaster tools with the new https address, or should I be getting credible data from the old http url that is already in there? Thank you in advance!
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hey all, thought i'd post an update. i was poking around in webmaster tools for a different issue and found a section that said i did in fact need to resubmit the https version of the site in order to get the correct data. i'd be happy to try and find that page again if anyone was interested.
thx!
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awesome, thank you everyone!
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Technically 301 redirection means that you are shifting users as well as search engines to the new version of the URL so technically there is no need of including the new version of URL in the webmaster tools but I believe including them will not hurt either.
Hope this helps!
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Hi Jason,
That's completely normal based on my own experiences. Things will settle down soon. I didn't resubmit mine and it's working perfectly now.
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As far as I can tell Webmaster tools doesn't take into account http vs https it only looks at domains/subdomains so you shouldn't need to do anything on that front. Whenever you make a large change like that it usually takes a little bit of time for everything to get settled with Google and get back to normal.
So I would say that you shouldn't need to do anything else. You just need to wait and everything should get reindexed.
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