Can someone explains this please

[KSA]

Hello everyone,

We are trying to shift from HTTP to HTTPS and we are a bit worried about the migration affect on indexing and traffic so google says this.

If you migrate your site from HTTP to HTTPS, Google treats this simply as a site move with URL changes. This can temporarily affect some of your traffic numbers. See the site move overview page to learn more.

If you are migrating from HTTP to HTTPS in pieces, and you want to avoid early indexing of the staged URLs, we recommend using rel=canonical rather than redirects. If you use redirects, you won't be able to test the redirected pages.

Can anyone explains what does google mean by this and how do we implement rel=canonical to avoid indexing traffic issues.

Thanks in advance.

 

[andybond]

Unless I am very much mistaken you should enable :



You will find that under your basic board information.

Then do the HTTP-->HTTPS transfer

 

[Mr Lucky]

I think what they mean is that if you have both http and https pages at the same time, then a rel= canonical for both must point only one or the other or they will see duplicate content.

Unless you want to do it stages (which I would find confusing for a forum like XenForo) I would recommend just doing it all in one go with a redirect to https

 

[KSA]

Unless I am very much mistaken you should enable :

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You will find that under your basic board information.

Then do the HTTP-->HTTPS transfer

should the board url be http or https after migrating to https?

 

[Itworx4me]

should the board url be http or https after migrating to https?

Https