: How to use HTTPS canonical link tag in Blogger blog? Look out, Google official security blog - http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com Above blog forced user to visit https link (without using

@Sarah324

Blogger beta now giving free SSL to custom domain which fix https links automatically in canonical link tag. To do that


Go to draft.blogger.com, you can see upcoming release there.
Then go to settinig > basic and enable https availability.

Now go back to your main blogger.com dashboard, and you will see same option there, but it may take few minutes(for me 2 minute) to enable it on your main dashboard, because blogger automatically register SSL certificate for your custom domain.

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@Smith883

Look at the Google Official Security Blog, and the gadgets in the sidebar. Look at the links in the blog - where do they lead?

The Google blog has very few links - and all of them are HTTPS.

Now, look at the typical Blogger blog. They'll have gadgets in the sidebar, that they get from God knows where - and links to blogs and websites that are not on HTTPS.

Blogger is not the only major publishing platform to be just getting into SSL. All of the non SSL gadgets and links, that will be all over the typical Blogger blog, will generate "Mixed Content" alerts.

The typical blog reader, surfing to a Blogger blog with non SSL gadgets and links, and forced into HTTPS: mode, will see the "Mixed Content" alerts, and will bail.


I'm not surfing there, again!


The bottom line - Blogger cannot go to full SSL, because the content of the blogs will freak the readers - because other blogs and websites are not there.

Blogger Engineering stated explicitly that the canonical URL for the blog - or for any post - will be "http:" - not "https:" - because they want our readers to have the option to use "http:". And that, because their content best supports "http:".

Your readers deserve the option.

If you really don't want your readers to have the option to use "http:" to access your blog, here's where you start.


<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>


That's the reference to the standard blog header, which contains the canonical tag - and the rest of the header content.

What's the current supported solution, here, for overriding header content?

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