SEO / 301 question

[bkkmick]

Hi

I'm moving a site from http to https.

I was wondering if I need to 301 all the http pages to their https versions?

Necessary or not?

Cheers

Mick

[draftvader]

I think so.

https://www.sslshopper.com/apache-redirect-http-to-https.html

[draftvader]

Oooh. Don't forget to do that for both with and without "www".

[bkkmick]

Thanks vader.

Interesting article. I'll write some code to generate the 301 lines to include in our htaccess file.

Cheers

Mick

[IMHO]

Be careful with 301's - they tell search engines that should delete the original URL from their indexes.

IMHO, The best way to handle this is by using simple canonical tags. Canonicals are 100% safe, because they instruct search engines what your preferred URL for the page is, without eliminating other URL's they might currently be indexing.