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    How To Convert Miva Site To All HTTPS

    We just put out a tutorial on how to convert your entire site to https

    http://www.miva.com/blog/how-to-conv...tore-to-https/

    Brennan Heyde
    VP Product
    Miva, Inc.
    [email protected]
    https://www.miva.com

    #2
    That's great, thank you for that article. We've been chatting about doing this with our site after one of your developers suggested it to us. Has Miva (or anybody else reading this) converted any of the sites that it manages and seen any results (natural listings, customer trust/conversion rate, or any other results)? We're trying to gauge how important this is, to better determine when to do it. I'm sure the results will vary, but it would be nice to hear from somebody with first hand experience. Thanks!
    Charlie Morrison
    www.MCRmedical.com

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      #3
      From what we've seen SEO wise, the impact is extraordinarily small. In fact, we've seen far more people screw up their sites and SEO doing it (not that they shouldn't or you shouldn't go all HTTPS, but since SEO's are generally grasping at straws, this has become one of the hot items to promote to make it seem like they know what they're doing) because they missed a step or broke their site.

      The reason we wrote the checklist was to help people who are inevitably going to follow those SEO's advice and do our best to prevent harm and in the long run, setting sites up all HTTPS is a better choice and will become the de facto standard within a couple years.
      Thanks,

      Rick Wilson
      CEO
      Miva, Inc.
      [email protected]
      https://www.miva.com

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        #4
        Both the how-to, and the insight are valuable pieces of information. Thank you.
        Charlie Morrison
        www.MCRmedical.com

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          #5
          Thank you for the how-to! Curious though - Miva PS is telling me it's typically 10-15 hours if we want Miva to do this? That seems like a lot of time that doesn't line up with the blog post.

          -Kevin
          Web Design and Development, Internet Marketing
          Lancer Media, Inc.

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            #6
            Originally posted by lancermedia View Post
            Thank you for the how-to! Curious though - Miva PS is telling me it's typically 10-15 hours if we want Miva to do this? That seems like a lot of time that doesn't line up with the blog post.

            -Kevin
            It doesn't take that long, unless the site is cram packed with hard coded links...
            Leslie Kirk
            Miva Certified Developer
            Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
            Previously of Webs Your Way
            (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

            Email me: [email protected]
            www.lesliekirk.com

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              #7
              Originally posted by lesliekirk View Post
              It doesn't take that long, unless the site is cram packed with hard coded links...
              Thought so. Anything using Miva variables should get updated automatically with the settings changes correct? Only things link hard coded links in contact/menus or modules like feeds etc would need manual updating.

              -Kevin
              Web Design and Development, Internet Marketing
              Lancer Media, Inc.

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                #8
                Originally posted by lancermedia View Post

                Thought so. Anything using Miva variables should get updated automatically with the settings changes correct? Only things link hard coded links in contact/menus or modules like feeds etc would need manual updating.

                -Kevin
                It "should" but you need make sure that the variables are being used and used correctly.
                Leslie Kirk
                Miva Certified Developer
                Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
                Previously of Webs Your Way
                (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

                Email me: [email protected]
                www.lesliekirk.com

                Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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                  #9
                  can somebody help me make this implementation work correctly with the toolkit short links. When the old non https links on google, our facebook or our blog go to the site they are redirected to https://www.loveisarose.com/mm5/merc...d-dipped-roses instead of the short link preferred version which is https://www.loveisarose.com/gold-dipped-roses.html I'm going to guess it might have to do with the code on the TKSL page template
                  Last edited by SidFeyDesigns; 06-15-16, 10:30 AM.
                  Nick Harkins
                  www.loveisarose.com
                  *Web Developer
                  *Miva
                  *Google Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager, Merchant Center, Ads

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                    #10
                    i have created a thread in the miva 5 section http://www.miva.com/forums/forum/onl...kit-shortlinks
                    Nick Harkins
                    www.loveisarose.com
                    *Web Developer
                    *Miva
                    *Google Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager, Merchant Center, Ads

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                      #11
                      How is this tutorial and implementation standing up to the 9.66 update and what might be any issues with 9.7+?

                      Scott
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by ids View Post
                        How is this tutorial and implementation standing up to the 9.66 update and what might be any issues with 9.7+?

                        Scott
                        "I" think there is still an issue with the URI Management. You can't enter https as part of the "URL Prefix" and "I" think it's causing issues with some of the feed generations - in this case the Market Place Google Shopping Feed doesn't include the https even though the store is configured all https. (But in this instance, the store is using the Legacy Settings) So there are little glitches still remaining.
                        Leslie Kirk
                        Miva Certified Developer
                        Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
                        Previously of Webs Your Way
                        (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

                        Email me: [email protected]
                        www.lesliekirk.com

                        Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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                          #13
                          Hi Leslie -

                          You are correct, there is a bug (not related to 9.0065/66) that is causing the legacy SEO setting not to use the secure settings on the site as well as the feeds. This will be fixed in 9.0007 however you can change it now, by hard coding the feed link to always be secure. Or a find and replace like this:

                          Code:
                          <mvt:assign name="l.settings:record:link" value="glosub(l.settings:record:link, 'http://' , 'https://')" />
                          Brennan Heyde
                          VP Product
                          Miva, Inc.
                          [email protected]
                          https://www.miva.com

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Brennan View Post
                            Hi Leslie -

                            You are correct, there is a bug (not related to 9.0065/66) that is causing the legacy SEO setting not to use the secure settings on the site as well as the feeds. This will be fixed in 9.0007 however you can change it now, by hard coding the feed link to always be secure. Or a find and replace like this:

                            Code:
                            <mvt:assign name="l.settings:record:link" value="glosub(l.settings:record:link, 'http://' , 'https://')" />
                            Where would I hard code the feed link to be secure? In the HEAD Tag?
                            Leslie Kirk
                            Miva Certified Developer
                            Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
                            Previously of Webs Your Way
                            (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

                            Email me: [email protected]
                            www.lesliekirk.com

                            Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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                              #15
                              If you're using the l.settings:record:link variable in the feed then your best option is to add the code above in the iterator template to replace http with https

                              If you want to hard code it, you need to essentially build their URL structure in the feed instead of using that record:link variable

                              https://www.domain.com/product/&mvt:record:code;.html
                              Brennan Heyde
                              VP Product
                              Miva, Inc.
                              [email protected]
                              https://www.miva.com

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