I think AdSense used to warn of possibly lower earnings when switching to HTTPS, because somehow less ads are available over HTTPS. Is that still the case?
I've switched a handful of sites from http to https over the past 7 months and the drop of adsense earnings has been negligible.
A technical guide to SEO
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#12Search Engine Optimization starter guide from Google: http://goo.gl/zTsclA
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#13Search Engine Optimization starter guide from Google: http://goo.gl/zTsclA
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#15Shameless plug: friends of mine have been building Webtexttool [1], a tool aimed at helping content writers (who often are unaware of SEO technicalities) write optimized content. They are still adding features but it already works quite well.
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#16I think AdSense used to warn of possibly lower earnings when switching to HTTPS, because somehow less ads are available over HTTPS. Is that still the case?
I've switched a handful of sites from http to https over the past 7 months and the drop of adsense earnings has been negligible.
For tech-oriented sites, I don't see a difference in revenue for HTTP vs HTTPs sites anymore. In fashion or other markets, that may still be a different deal.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've switched a handful of sites from http to https over the past 7 months and the drop of adsense earnings has been negligible.
Same scenario here (author of the original post): moving from HTTP to HTTPs did hurt my revenue for the first couple of months (I switched 2 years ago), but advertisers seem to have caught up. For tech-oriented sites, I don't see a difference in revenue for HTTP vs HTTPs sites anymore. In fashion or other markets, that may still be a different deal.
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#18"Some important things to know about the SSL-compatible ad code: HTTPS-enabled sites require that all content on the page, including the ads, be SSL-compliant. As such, AdSense will remove all non-SSL compliant ads from competing in the auction on these pages. If you do decide to convert your HTTP site to HTTPS, please be aware that because we remove non-SSL compliant ads from the auction, thereby reducing auction pressure, ads on your HTTPS pages might earn less than those on your HTTP pages."
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#20Great overview, thank you. This gave me several things to fix I hadn't been aware of, and my site generally already does well with on-site SEO. Actually, what do you recommend for ongoing monitoring of the things flagged by wget scripts? I could assign it to my programmer. I also think Moz or similar services handle that automatically. It might be more effective just to outsource it to them? My current solution has b…