Canonical link tag for https - any disadvantages for SEO?
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Hi Mozzers,
We have a website that has both http as well as https indexed. I proposed the solution of implementing a canonical link tag on all pages (including the login/secure ones).
Any disadvantages I could expect?
Thanks!
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Thank you Anthony
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You most definitely can canonicalize the https pages to their respective http pages. I have done this on websites and had great results in keeping one version of the site in the index.
As always, make sure your sitemaps accurately reflect your canonical URLs.
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