{"id":28473,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/switching-a-site-to-https\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:47:43","slug":"switching-a-site-to-https","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/switching-a-site-to-https\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching a site to HTTPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switching to HTTPS changes the site&#8217;s address as far as Yandex is concerned, so it follows the mirror procedure rather than being a purely technical change. Yandex recommends the move, and notes that the HTTP version may remain available if there is a reason for it.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1 \u2014 the certificate<\/h2>\n<p>Certificates differ by validation level: <strong>DV<\/strong> confirms the domain, <strong>OV<\/strong> confirms the domain belongs to a specific company, and <strong>EV<\/strong> requires extended verification of a legal entity and is part of global financial-industry standards. For a single domain any type works, including for the <code>www<\/code> and non-<code>www<\/code> forms; multiple domains need a certificate covering a defined list of URLs; subdomains take DV. After installation, verify with the server response check \u2014 SSL errors are reported there, and they are resolved through the certificate authority or the hosting provider, not by editing the site.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2 \u2014 internal links, which is where migrations fail<\/h2>\n<p>An HTTPS page containing HTTP references is treated as insecure by browsers, robots and other services. Change the protocol in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internal links to pages.<\/li>\n<li>Internal links to files \u2014 CSS, JavaScript, images.<\/li>\n<li>Links inside the sitemap.<\/li>\n<li>The <code>Sitemap<\/code> directive in <code>robots.txt<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Alternate language links (<code>hreflang<\/code>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yandex&#8217;s practical suggestion is to make internal links relative \u2014 <code>\/page\/<\/code> rather than the absolute address \u2014 which removes this class of problem permanently.<\/p>\n<p>One detail that catches analytics teams: links or ad blocks pointing at HTTP resources can break referrer attribution, so traffic sources are recorded incorrectly. Adding <code>&lt;meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"origin\"\/&gt;<\/code> passes protocol and domain and restores it.<\/p>\n<h2>Steps 3 to 5 \u2014 verify, redirect, relocate<\/h2>\n<p>Confirm the site loads over HTTPS with a valid connection indicator, set <code>301<\/code>\/<code>302<\/code> redirects page to page (not everything to the home page), and submit the move through Indexing \u2192 Relocate site. As with any mirror change, expect several weeks and enable the notification.<\/p>\n<h2>The expectation to set<\/h2>\n<p>Merging transfers some signals and external links, and guarantees nothing about position or traffic. A migration executed carefully is uneventful; one executed with blanket redirects and mixed content is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching to HTTPS changes the site&#8217;s address as far as Yandex is concerned, so it follows the mirror procedure rather than being a purely technical change. Yandex recommends the move, and notes that the HTTP version may remain available if there is a reason for it. Step 1 \u2014 the certificate Certificates differ by validation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":49,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[759],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28473","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-site-move-alternate-site-addresses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29064,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28473\/revisions\/29064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}