Avoiding Secure & Non-Secure Site Duplication

[mandy]

One issue we've come across, especially with e-commerce sites is when products can be accessed via both secure and non-secure URLs.

This issue is typically caused by poorly implemented site navigation and linking. What happens is that the shopper adds a product to the shopping cart. At that point they enter into the secure pages. But when the shopper continues shopping, instead of proceeding to checkout, they navigate back into the site keeping the https: in the browser URL. This opens up the entire site to be indexed using secure URLs, creating duplicates of the non-secure URLs

There are a couple fixes to this. The first is to not allow your visitors to enter the secure areas of the site until they are ready to check out...

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