Installing SSL to website and site ranking
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I am installing SSL to my website. Will it hurt my ranking in Google as the url will change and backlinks of the website are without ssl url.
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Hi Fahed,
Here is answer @ https://moz.com/community/q/losing-backlinks-between-http-and-https
Hope it helps.
Thanks
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