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A site with good link popularity, trust and ranking on search engine is to change his internet protocol.

Today all pages are aviable with the HTTP protocol, soon be applied the HTTPS protocol for all the site.

Examples:

Today:

http://www.domain.com

http://www.domain.com/page.html


Tomorrow:

https://www.domain.com

https://www.domain.com/page.html

Can harm the ranking these change?

What should the site owner to preserve the search engines ranking?

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http and https are almost interchangeable and I wouldn't expect any particular problems.

Under a technical point of view, you are changing the URI of a document hence I would suggest to apply a 301 redirect from the older URI to the new one. Each page/resource should redirect from the non-https to the https version.

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how to apply the permanent redirect? – Rinzi Nov 23 at 21:11
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Make a rule to change the protocol, you can find good information here giving that you are on a LAMP Stack

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Google indexes both http and https, I think that the schema change cannot harm your ranking.

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Google indexes both http and https

but what about showing https pages in the SERPs?

I never saw an https page there..

What do you think about?

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