How to work round issue with SEOMOZ not supporting SSL?
-
I have a website that it running via SSL, to secure the website, to reassure the customer is browsing (and so will be purchasing) on a secure website, and to show off the green address bar which many of my competitors do not have.
However in my campaign I am getting on Links showing, with my rank reporting '1', surely this cannot be!
I asked a Help question, and the only response was: "Unfortunately, we don't currently support https for our linkscape crawls. This is definitely something that we plan to implement in the future though! I hope that helps and I apologize for any inconveniences!"
This definately does not help.. Is there any way of working around this issue, or will I be forced to cancel my SEOMOZ membership?
-
Thanks I'll try this to see if it can get Linkscape up and going again.... hopefully then I can get my SeoMoz subscription back.
-
The seomoz crawler agent is rogerbot.
User-agent: rogerbot
-
Hello Shawn,
Sorry for the late reply. If I allow Roger the Search Bot access to a http version of my website, will that appear in the linkscape index?
If so, can I have the user agent of the mozbot so that I exclude it from the user-agents that are forced to use HTTPS?
This is the reason I have cancelled my SEOMOZ Pro membership, so I'd really like to have it sorted so I can rejoin
Kind Regards,
James -
It appears this only applies to page crawling and not the linkscape reports (mozTrust etc)
-
SSL is not as performance killing as people link, see this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-performance
I want to implement SSL for my application, and I want seomoz to provide the metrics for it, if that is not possible that is fine, I just wanted to check before I went to another provider.
-
I understand you wish to demonstrate the value you offer, but running the entire site in SSL is not the way to do it. It is a negative experience for both the user and you to run the site in SSL.
1. It will eat your bandwidth. If you are hosted on VPS your hosting expenses will increase. If you are on a shared server with no extra bandwidth charges, then all of your pages will load slower because of the increased data transfer.
2. Images from a secured server cannot be cached. Images are the biggest use of bandwidth and page loading speed. Your increased bandwidth usage will be amplified, and users will take another noticeable performance hit when accessing your site.
3. A third performance hit is that on each side the data has to be encrypted and decrypted. Have you tried running any performance testing?
4. Many users will never notice the green bar, and have absolutely no idea what it represents.
Apache covers issues related to SSL response times in their FAQ: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#load
-
I do believe seoMoz now supports https -> http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-seomoz-pricing-plans-more-keywords-for-everyone
-
I want to assure the customer the site is secure straight from their entry to the first page. SSL doesnt really cost anything to implement so it makes sense to have it on the whole site.
I'm more after how to get the equivalent moz trust factors etc in my SEOPro
-
Personally I'd only have secure pages for actual payment pages - the rest of them I'd have normal pages since the only time a visitor is really going to worry about SSL/secure pages is when they go though to the payment section/page.
'Continue to secure payment' or something of the sort
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Duplicate canonical tag issue
i have this site https://www.dealsmango.com/ which i have selected for canonical , but google is still selecting my old website https://www.selldealsmango.com/ , i have removed everything from old site only one page with new site link, and also put 301 redirect , but still when i click on request for indexing on google search console same error appears regarding duplicate canonical tag . what should i do? remove the canonical tag from old site which i don't want google to index, or what will be the best possible solution.
Moz Pro | | MudassirSultn0 -
Joomla Opencart Duplicate Link Issue
With a few recent catalog changes my client is having tons of duplicate content issues. The most peculiar is one that I cannot see visibly on the site pages. This page: http://www.CLIENTDOMAIN.com/catalog/lights.html shows to have several duplicate content issues with URLs such as: http://www.CLIENTDOMAIN.com/catalog/lights/Lamp-DRW.htmlhttp:/www.CLIENTDOMAIN.com - where the domain is basically added to the end of the first URL. Has anyone seen this? Any fixes, plugins or thoughts? Thanks,
Moz Pro | | KristinaWitmer
Kristina0 -
Is seomoz rogerbot only crawling the subdomains by links or as well by id?
I´m new at seomoz and just set up a first campaign. After the first crawling i got quite a few 404 errors due to deleted (spammy) forum threads. I was sure there are no links to these deleted threads so my question is weather the seomoz rogerbot is only crawling my subdomains by links or as well by ids (the forum thread ids are serially numbered from 1 to x). If the rogerbot crawls as well serially numbered ids do i have to be concerned by the 404 error on behalf of the googlebot as well?
Moz Pro | | sauspiel0 -
The Keyword Difficulty Tool is not working,
I have been trying to so some keyword research for the past few hours, but really couldn't research even a single keyword. Is the Tool working??
Moz Pro | | vickygoal0 -
Issue in number of pages crawled
i wanted to figure out how our friend Roger Bot works. On the first crawl of one of my large sites, the number of pages crawled stopped at 10000 (due to the restriction on the pro account). However after a few weeks, the number of pages crawled went down to about 5500. This number seemed to be a more accurate count of the pages on our site. Today, it seems that Roger Bot has completed another crawl and the number is up to 10000 again. I know there has been no downtime on our site, and the items that we fixed on our site did not reduce or increase the number of pages we had. Just making sure there are no known issues with Roger Bot before I look deeper into our site to see if there is an issue. Thanks!
Moz Pro | | cchhita0 -
Why does it take so long for SeoMoz to update data?
I changed the Anchor Text of 4 40/100 MozRank sites 2 months ago, yet SeoMoz still shows the old Anchor text in the reports. Why is this taking so long? I also notice my inbound domains hasn't increased nor has my MozRank in 3-4 weeks. What's the turnaround?
Moz Pro | | sanchez19600 -
If there a basic overview of the SEOMoz Pro tools?
I'm surprised there is no simple overview of all the features anywhere, or a guide on how to use the tools? There's a nice intro video, and a good beginners guide, then BAM! - straight into the Pro Tools (it's a bit daunting for someone learning!) Or at least that I can find... and help or pointers would be great 🙂
Moz Pro | | seanuk0 -
Is there a way to manually update the keyword rankings tool in SEOmoz?
It appears that our keyword rankings update weekly on Thursdays. Is this the same across the board or is there a way to manually run an update?
Moz Pro | | Motivators0