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jimstones22 · 07-16-2017, 11:28 PM

Have any of you moved your site to HTTPs the past year? How did that go for you? Did your rankings drop?

If so, how many days after installing SSL did they drop? Did you recover soon after the drop for all keywords? Or did you not recover at all?

The big G maintains that there should be no loss of traffic after following their guidelines. But 4 days after moving to HTTPs we lost over 50% of our traffic. HTTP pages that were ranking for particular keywords are no longer showing in the SERPs.

These however haven't been replaced with the HTTPs versions. One of our websites is no longer ranking for about 50% of its keywords. After rigorous testing we could not find any red flags, the SSL certificate is working correctly, permanent 301 redirects have been set, and canonical tags are present in the new HTTPs pages.

Technically we don't need the HTTPs, we thought we'd make the move as it would be inevitable eventually. From what I read I see horror stories of it taking weeks to months or some never even recover.

We can't afford this temporary/permanent traffic loss. Have any of you moved back to HTTP again after a failed/risky transition? Did you regain your rankings immediately?

We're not prepared to wait this one out as it clearly does more harm than good.

07-16-2017, 11:28 PM
jimstones22 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 38	Did your rankings drop after moving to HTTPs? Have any of you moved your site to HTTPs the past year? How did that go for you? Did your rankings drop? If so, how many days after installing SSL did they drop? Did you recover soon after the drop for all keywords? Or did you not recover at all? The big G maintains that there should be no loss of traffic after following their guidelines. But 4 days after moving to HTTPs we lost over 50% of our traffic. HTTP pages that were ranking for particular keywords are no longer showing in the SERPs. These however haven't been replaced with the HTTPs versions. One of our websites is no longer ranking for about 50% of its keywords. After rigorous testing we could not find any red flags, the SSL certificate is working correctly, permanent 301 redirects have been set, and canonical tags are present in the new HTTPs pages. Technically we don't need the HTTPs, we thought we'd make the move as it would be inevitable eventually. From what I read I see horror stories of it taking weeks to months or some never even recover. We can't afford this temporary/permanent traffic loss. Have any of you moved back to HTTP again after a failed/risky transition? Did you regain your rankings immediately? We're not prepared to wait this one out as it clearly does more harm than good.