Rebuild or not all old links while http to https migration
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I moved website https://mobile.designer-vip.com/ from http to https protocol but I am not sure that I need to rebuild all old links to this website.Would I need to change all old links from http to https to save weight of links.
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Thanks, Dan.
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I'm going to disagree with Alick300 slightly.
You won't need to rebuild all your links in terms of the minimal loss of ranking signals. Although I'd consider it for the top 1-2% (and also any local citations etc, etc). This is based on some experience with testing whether updating links can make a marginal difference on various sites post migration, and seemingly it can help if you're just missing out on the next ranking position (for want of a better metric).
And it's also worth checking prior to migration whether the switch to https will create any redirect chains. For example, you might have an old page link that was redirected, and now redirects again to the https version etc. The Moz crawl will highlight any chains/loops you have with existing redirects...
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Hi,
No need to rebuild old links after migrating from http to https.
Read this article on the same @ https://www.thewebmaster.com/seo/2015/jul/8/google-no-need-update-backlinks-change-url/
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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