What is the recommended canonical variation for a website now migrated to Https:?
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We recently migrated our site to HTTPS:? In the past, we went with http://www.
What is the recommended canonical variation corresponding to these changes?
- http://
- http://www.
- https://
- https://www.
Thank you!
Erin
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Thank you so much for the response! That is very helpful.
Cheers,
Erin
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If you did a 301 redirect, you do not need a canonical. If I were to use a canonical, I would use the https://www version, since you had the www before.
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