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relevant question, how much SE traffic did you have before it tripled?
if you went from a few hundred uniques to a thousand uniques per day it just sounds like google finally picking up your site a little. I see this all the time on new sites (or after optimizing an old one), it happens abruptly. It's like google decides one day "hey you don't suck" and starts turning on the faucet.
if you actually tripled an appreciable amount of traffic then perhaps HTTPS did contribute.
right now though, I don't see evidence to make me believe that google is strongly preferring HTTPS. The top tubes are using https, but, causality: are they the top tubes because of https? Or do they use https because they're the top tubes?
the aggregator networks (adultwebmasternet, etc) are not using https and continue to rank well.
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