> return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
Don't do this. After I did it, my 3 websites were completely wiped-out from search results. From 3k UU to 20-30UU /day.
Don't do this. After I did it, my 3 websites were completely wiped-out from search results. From 3k UU to 20-30UU /day.
Did you try to recover the traffic? If yes, what did you try and did it work?
Also, after setting the permanent redirect, I believe it would be a good idea to update the internal navigation of the site so that all links are formed with https. That way, both the crawlers and the web server will have less work to do and eventually, the entire site will be indexed/updated in the search engines with the https protocol.
nginx was redirecting everything with 301.
I let once website work on http and https and made most links protocol-independent, only site map and search results are forced to https. There was a thread about it on reddit where a few more people said the same.
I slightly recovered from it, got 101 UU yesterday.
If it has been a while (at least a month or two) since the changes were made and the traffic has not returned, that would be a cause for concern.