Dear respect support,
Recently (about 25 days) I changed my website from http to https, all went ok.
Now the main issue is that I lost my google ranking from being at the very top in 1st page!!!
After reading many articles, google will take time to re-index or what ever…25 days Passed still not getting my position back!
Testing redirects, all work.
Kindly advice.
what do you want help with? How your site performs has nothing to do with MyBB. There's a simple (MyBB docs) guidance on how to implement https redirection, and that's about it.
I don't think you even need a 301 redirect for https migration. It might be something else that is hurting your rankings.
(2018-09-28, 10:17 AM)meetdilip Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think you even need a 301 redirect for https migration. It might be something else that is hurting your rankings.
No, but it's best to have it in place because that addresses the issue for all SEs. The op could go configure webmaster tools to set a preferred domain, but this only fixes the problem for Google. Without a redirect or without setting a preferred domain, there could be pagerank spread causing the poor performance. But then setting the 301 redirect will fix that. Sounds like the OP is saying he already has the 301 redirect in place, so unless it's implemented wrong there will be other factors causing the poor performance in SE results.
Thanks for replies....
The help I need is one professional SEO to check what could causing this issue!
If no any chance, I will consider revert all changes back!
Best regards.
PS That is what I use for re-writes:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^&]*)&(.*)$
https://mhhauto.com/$1?$2 [L,QSA,R=301]
If I put This:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
The site will go offline!
Search for the mybb doc that i referred to, then implement it. That's all you need to do on the mybb side of things. BTW - google seems to have changed their way of doing things lately i have noticed. It takes a lot longer than before for them to clean up the index. And they are much more frugal with the crawl rate. Bing responds much faster. So 25 days is not long enough to make a judgement that something is wrong. Could be months before your position returns to normal again.
I found this code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
I applied then revert back to: RewriteRule ^([^&]*)&(.*)$ https://mhhauto.com/$1?$2 [L,QSA,R=301]
Now getting error in seo:
- Board URL is set to 'https://mhhauto.com', but you currently seem to be on 'https://www.mhhauto.com'. A wrong Board URL setting may cause problems with Redirect.
I want to keep the board url: https://mhhauto.com as it was 
Kindly advice!
New error:
Add to .htaccess:
# Some hosts require RewriteBase to make RewriteRules work.
RewriteBase /
# Google SEO workaround for search.php highlights:
# Make this rule the first rewrite rule in your .htaccess!
RewriteRule ^([^&]*)&(.*)$ https://mhhauto.com/$1?$2 [L,QSA,R=301]
Knowing that the rules is there!
Kindly advice.
if you need that rule, put it after the mybb code. If i am not mistaken that rule is to redirect www version to non-www version.