Does Bing consider http://www.domain.com the same as https://www.domain.com?
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Bing Webmaster Tools showed me that sometimes it displays https://www.domain.com in its results and sometimes http://www.domain.com.
That got me thinking. Does Bing consider https to be a seperate duplicate copy of the http version? IE does my site get knocked down for duplicate content because of this?
In Google webmaster tools, I can tell it whether I want https or http. But I dont know how to tell Bing.
Any pointers will be appreciated.
Thanks
Dan
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I've worked out a solution.
I set up SSL on https://secure.domain.com and removed SSL from www.domain.com.
Then I moved all the secure content to secure.domain.com.
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It's always a good idea to consolidate http/https for the search engines since A) it's possible there may be duplicate content issues and B) the links pointing to the different versions of the URL would not necessarily carry as much weight as having all of the links point to one URL. Here is a great blog post outlining these issues and offers some useful solutions - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-for-http-and-https/15055/
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