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Originally Posted by TBFS
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
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We did move a less popular site to HTTPs before. Since we didn't have much traffic on it, the risk was low and the rankings remained for whatever small number of KWs we ranked for.
However, this time we moved a site that was ranking for over 20K keywords. I think it's impossible for large sites to just rank seamless for all those KWs again in the same position when switching to HTTPs as if nothing happened. The pages are nowhere to be found for high volume keywords, although do rank for long-tails in some cases.
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Originally Posted by magneto664
it all depends
- I move to https one quality site most keywords from 1-10 in google with amazing traffic
and gap was only 3 days.
- i move also plenty of no-quality sites or where rankings was around ~30 and gap was even a 3-4 weeks.
if you do for all non-www and www redirection to https and when you add all types to google webmaster tools you don't should get any drops of ranking - your site will be re-indexed and all links also will be re-indexed from no http to https and it will get a time.
If you have a chance good step will be to change some link to your site from http to https
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I don't think it's worth the risk, maybe if the site is new or has low traffic. Then there isn't much to lose. But I doubt we're going to rank again for the same 20K+ keywords in a matter of days.
We think we'll switch back to HTTP again if it doesn't resolve within 48 hours as it still been less than a week. We don't run forms, already had my doubts for a long time when it comes to moving large sites to HTTPs.
This just confirmed what I was fearing, on top of all those horror stories on the web. The loss of income, the uncertainty of how long it takes, and risk altogether all make it not worth it for regular sites to move HTTPs in my humble opinion.