Forums › Forums › White Hat SEO › Should I use canonical tags to say http is https? White Hat SEO Should I use canonical tags to say http is https? Posted by seohelper on January 30, 2021 at 3:16 am Should I use canonical tags to say http is https? Or just not have the canonical tag? Is it gonna hurt my ranking? Subhodipd replied 5 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 3 Replies 3 Replies Smellysocks23 Guest January 30, 2021 at 4:14 am You should force https in the htaccess file then you won’t have to worry about in on the page level benjithefirst Guest January 30, 2021 at 7:27 am Server side 301 redirect http to https is best practice Subhodipd Guest January 30, 2021 at 9:28 am Yes, you have to use the canonical tag to avoid the duplicate content issue. Log In to Reply Log in to reply. Log In to Reply Start of Discussion 0 of 0 replies June 2018 Now