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Agreed, Google WM Console is a handy resource but not one I would use to monitor traffic, it generally always 3 days behind on real numbers, and even then things tend to change in there over time. And as MRA says all the traffic that hits the old URLs gets thrown direct to the https and usually in miliseconds so the user wouldn’t notice. The 301 retains any SEO and page info, and the https is now known as a ranking factor with google, (although its weight is not known) so in the long run, or even in the shorter run it can only improve your onsite SEO.
As I understand it, Google asks that you submit all versions of the adult site in WMT (I don’t mean a sitemap, just have the accounts listed in there) but you only need to worry about your preferred version; in this case the https.
For example, you can have:
http:// www. yoursite
http:// yoursite
https:// yoursiteBut the last one is the only one we ever check for anything as it’s the preferred domain. This is the only one you need to submit any sitemap for, or check robots.txt and so on.
