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Think I setup HTTPs wrong – Need some input on lost backlinks.
Okay so one of our websites wanted a migration from HTTP to HTTPs.
I think we screwed up somewhere in our implementation.
The original domain was http://www
When moving to HTTPs we then had https://www
Now it’s just https://mydomain
So the redirect chain looks like:
301 moved permanently to https://www
301 moved permanently to https://mydomain
So, almost all of our backlinks links were pointing to the http://www and now that we have it on a non www, does that make us lose our links? Should I have just skipped the third step and just gone from http://ww to https://www?
Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
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It would have been one less redirect to just go to [https://www](https://www). Not sure why you decided to drop the WWW.
However, if the 301’s are implemented correctly you should be fine.
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Just update the 301 to the non www – the guy that actually invented www. Recently said it’s the stupidest thing he ever did – www is just a sub domain of the URL. It’s not needed.
As for links, adding extra hops to your site when it’s not necessary is not a good idea, update the redirects from http://www to https:// and you’ll be fine.
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