First thing I did was update all links to external sites (advertising, stat counters, etc) from http to https. If they didn't support https at all, I deleted them.
Yeah, a lot of sites don't use SSL, such as Photobucket; so users embedding offsite content from non-ssl sites will mark that page as having shared assets (items from both secure and insecure places)
Then I ran some database queries {with help from Gizmo and Isaac) to search and replace all internal links in user posts, etc from http to https.
I'm glad to hear that you got yourself up and running.
Be sure that you create new properties at Google for your https site, it's treated as a seperate property than your non-secure site. Also, my
UBB.Sitemaps and
UBB.MemberMaps addons both support secure sites, whatever URL it's accessed from will push that type of url (so on your secure property at Gooogle you'd request the ssl version of the sitemap).
