Huge increase in links to your site when moving to SSL
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Hi
My client has 2 websites that after moving them to SSL the number of links to your site in the search console increased in 10s of thousands. What can be the reasons?
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Thanks for your reply.
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Can this huge increase in backlinks effect rankings? cause the sites had a drop in traffic after the SSL shift.
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I know that there are some factors that are effected from the shift to SSL that can effect rankings for a while but once Google crawls all new URLS it's suppose to be back to previous rankings. right?
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In one of the https sites (lets say https://www.abc.biz), most of the backlinks that I see in the search console are linked from a site that was 301 redirected in January to the abc.biz site. The weird thing is that these backlinks didn't exist in the 301 redirected site but do exist on abc.biz). how can it be?
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Most likely a reporting issue. But a good reason to dive into those links (in bulk, a link profile audit) and see if you can spot and see when they got added, if you can improve some etc.
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