https question

[Track]

okay, it's been a while since I've asked any dumb simple questions you all know the answers to.

when a site is using https instead of http, can spiders still crawl that site?

My understanding is those pages load slightly slower and are just more secure. But I'm starting to suspect they cause all sorts of problems with spiders.

Thoughts?

 

[Kubel]

I think it depends on the search engine. A lot of search engines don't because of technical issues or choose not to because of privacy issues.