Page Redirection 1

[Hondy]

Hi

I believe that some search engines rank you badly for page redirection but what about redirecting to SSL?

I used the following Microsoft solution for forcing HTTP to HTTPS. But it seems to redirect, can anyone tell me if redirecting to SSL would negatively affect ranking if the home page is redirected to HTTPS?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q239875

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

As I know, should not have any side effect.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Hondy]

thanks, any proof? : )

 

[ChrisHirst]

There may well be major SE "side effects" with the MS solution as it uses a plain "response.redirect". This will send a 302 response to the user agent. This is a temporary redirect so will not force an update of the indexed URIs.

The code should be changed to send a permanent redirect (301) to ensure that indexed URIs are updated and the originals dropped from the database.

<%
   If Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_PORT")=80 Then
      Dim strSecureURL
      strSecureURL = "[URL unfurl="true"]https://"[/URL]
      strSecureURL = strSecureURL & Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")
      strSecureURL = strSecureURL & Request.ServerVariables("URL")
      Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
      response.addheader "Location", strSecureURL
   End If
%>

Chris.

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[feherke]

Hi

Ooops. Sorry, I did not give enough significance to the "Microsoft solution" expression in the question.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Hondy]

Chris thanks for that, I'll put that in