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Originally Posted by jimstones22
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.
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a temp drop is normal, and it dependse on the site.
we had a new site, 1 year old. moved to https, a few days after the move it went to 0 traffic, then went back up a week later.
we had a old site, 7 years old, moved to https, a few days later lost 50% traffic, 2-3 weeks later started to gain traffic again. we have more traffic than before now.
BUT, we did lose some old keywords due to the move (money keywords for us)
7 months later some of them are back now, but not all.
so each site will be different, but for us it was worth it overal
if you cant take a temp traffic loss switching to https was a bad call, switching back... could work, but will takes days and could potentially have issues aswell