301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS - how to be sure Google is fetching the correct information?
- by user33692
I'm hoping somebody might be able to provide a bit of advice on an issue I am having.
I have one site where we implemented a 301 redirect on the homepage from HTTP to HTTPS. We have links on the homepage to other parts of the site that are not under SSL (in fact there is only one other page under SSL).
When I go to our Webmaster Tools account I notice that we are not being provided with any webmaster information (e.g., search queries, backlinks, etc...) related to our homepage under SSL. I performed a Fetch as Google on the homepage and the information it returned is:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:26:24 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
Location: https://mysite.com/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 242
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://mysite.com/">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at mysite.com</address>
</body></html>
I am worried by the fact that Google fetch is not getting the correct Title tags and Meta information from our homepage and that this is hurting our search results.
Additionally, I am worried that we need to do something specific with the sitemap to ensure that Google is correctly indexing all our pages and being able to flow from the HTTPS to the HTTP without issues.
Does anybody have any advice on how we can correctly set this up or be sure that Google is fetching the correct information?
