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Topic: Google Search brings up https homepage?

Posted By: Chris Hadden
Subject: Google Search brings up https homepage?
Date Posted: 04-April-2014 at 4:27pm

I noticed something today when our site was loading slowly. Google is showing our homepage as https://jewelryfindings-online.com even when you type http://www.jewelryfindings-online.com in the search you get the other address. I don't fully understand this does anyone know why? I don't feel we should be using the secure side of things for the homepage. Seems considerably slower. Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Chris

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 04-April-2014 at 4:40pm

Mark Shipp and I have also seen this occur. I don't presently have a solution but you are not alone in this issue.

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Posted By: RedLeafDev
Date Posted: 07-April-2014 at 4:45pm

Hmmm. I thought that a 301 redirect in the web.config file might work. And, it does... Until you get to the checkout when you want it to go to SSL. Any more info on this, or a solution would be appreciated as we are seeing this on a couple of client's sites too.

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Posted By: Chris Hadden
Date Posted: 08-April-2014 at 10:55am

I don't know enough about this but in the google webmaster forum I found a similar post and this is the answer someone gave:

"For the record, in Java, it seems that response.sendRedirect automatically sets status to 302 (overriding manual set 301).

Ex:

response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY);
                        response.setHeader("Location", app.getUrlSecure(true) + requesthistory.getLocalUrl());
                        response.sendRedirect(app.getUrlSecure(true) + requesthistory.getLocalUrl());
                        return;

So, removing the last two lines might have fixed the problem."

Would this have anything to do with the issue? I am using a 301 redirect on the homepage

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Posted By: Chris Hadden
Date Posted: 01-May-2014 at 11:31am

Nothing on this ? Does product cart answer on this board?

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Posted By: whizzinpc
Date Posted: 01-May-2014 at 9:50pm

You can put a canonical tag on the homepage with http. That should do the trick.

Posted By: Chris Hadden
Date Posted: 02-May-2014 at 11:08am

Ok thanks for the advice, this would be placed in the header section of the product cart homepage?

Currently that is something like ... http://www.mystore.com/store/pc/home.asp

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Posted By: whizzinpc
Date Posted: 02-May-2014 at 11:29am

It looks like your site already has the canonical on your homepage.

Posted By: Chris Hadden
Date Posted: 02-May-2014 at 11:48am

Ok, looks like there is one there.

<link rel="canonical" href=" view-source:http://www.jewelryfindings-online.com/store/pc/home.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.jewelryfindings-online.com/store/pc/home.asp " />

It must have been there since the site first went up...based on that I would say your solution
is not working

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Posted By: Chris Hadden
Date Posted: 02-May-2014 at 12:34pm

I was just looking at the 301 redirect for the homepage which is this:

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "/store/pc/home.asp"
%>

Do you think the problem could have arisen because the full path to the home page is not there?

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Posted By: whizzinpc
Date Posted: 02-May-2014 at 1:35pm

Probabaly the only way to fix this is to use absolute URL's in your navigation. Only thing you have to watch out for is at checkout you dont want to link to non-ssl pages or you will get the security warnings.

Posted By: RedLeafDev
Date Posted: 20-May-2014 at 3:09pm

Anyone want to double check my logic here? I think I've figured this one out.

Use a different robots file for https (assuming that you are using IIS and your host has url rewrite available to you).

Steps are:

1) Create 2 robots files.

Robots.txt contains:

User-agent: *

Disallow:

Robots_https.txt contains:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

2) Add a rewrite rule to your web.config file.

<rules>

</conditions>

</rule>

</rules>

</rewrite>

3) Test by going to:

http://www.yoursite.com/robots.txt

and

https://www.yoursite.com/robots.txt

This will at least help to prevent this from happening. I'm not sure that it will fix the problem if it already exists.

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Posted By: RedLeafDev
Date Posted: 20-May-2014 at 3:16pm

Small edit:

change to:

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