After the recent announcement by Google that was speculated for a while in the SEO community, that sites that load over https (ssl) will be weighted slightly higher in the search algorithms, I quickly implemented an SSL cert and configured my dedicated server to serve the entire site/forum via https. Any old http links (in backlinks or Google's index) are 301 redirected to the https link.
Traffic hasn't declined, but my graph of search queries faded to zero pretty quickly after this change.
So any idea why this has happened?
Thanks.