I'm a hosting reseller and some of my clients use the ssl of the server for the cert. This gives a url like https://mydomainname.com/~username/some_page.php. I just found out that many of those pages are being listed in the SERP's. How do I prevent that? I can't list each page that might come up since there would be thousands. And even if I could, each new site that gets added would have to be added to the list. All-in-all, a lot of work. Is there a way to add an entry in the robots file to ignore all https links? That would skip them all at once. I would appreciate any suggestions regarding this problem.

Hi Sopt,

You're right to be concerned if your (duplicate) https pages are indexed in Google. This is a problem we've often come across with shopping sites or sites that they have a secure shopping basket.

The problem we've often found is that there are sitewide links to your "secure" pages and you need to update these to point to your non secure pages, and there is a solution via htaccess but to be exact we need an example URL. Feel free to send us a PM.

Cheers,
Paz.

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Give a nofollow in htaccess. Hope that helps.

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does the secure URL hurt the site? why? There are so many shopping site that have this problem, can't google just figure this out?

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I think there's nothing intrinsically wrong with https urls from an seo perspective though they will be slow and they could be hurt by any algo change that favours faster loading pages.

The problem with https pages; and maybe you are right, it should be a Google problem, is that you can have duplicate content on the same URLs.

Worst case I have seen are these versions of the home page;

http://www.example.com/
http://example.com/
http://www.example.com/default.asp
http://example.com/default.asp
then secure
https://www.example.com/
https://example.com/
https://www.example.com/default.asp
https://example.com/default.asp

Cheers,
Paz.

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Use robots text file to restrict that pages ignore by Google and other search engine.
You can restrict entire folder and upload robots.txt file in the root directory of site.

I am sure this will help you.

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