If you are looking for that tiny SSL search boost for your website, or are being proactive for when Google decides to ramp up their SSL search signal, John Mueller talked a little bit about it in today’s search hangout. One thing we learned is that the SSL ranking boost has an actual name, TLS, […]
Google Plans to Make HTTPS Ranking Signal Stronger
When Google first announced that HTTPS would be a ranking signal, a large number of webmasters jumped on the opportunity to get what was essentially a freebie boost in the search rankings simply by switching to HTTPS. Later, John Mueller from Google announced that it was a very small ranking signal, something that Gary Illyes […]
HTTPS Acts as Tie Breaker in Google’s Search Results
We have a bit more insight into just how much of a boost HTTPS gives in the Google search results. When Google first announced HTTPS as a ranking signal, many webmasters rushed to get their sites secure. John Mueller later clarified that webmasters shouldn’t expect a visible ranking change in the search results as the […]
Google’s HTTPS as Ranking Factor Announcement Increased Secured Webpages by 3%
When Google pushing webmasters to adopt HTTPS with their announcement in August that it would be a ranking signal, it prompted many webmasters to rush to get their websites secured. And it would appear that the announcement had a huge impact on the number of websites that chose to switch from HTTP to HTTPS. So […]
How to Migrate to HTTPS from the Google Chrome Team
The Google Chrome Team has released a “work in progress” guide to transitioning a website to HTTPS. For those of you who didn’t immediately transition to HTTPS when Google first announced that it would be used as a ranking signal (which they later announced would not be visible), you probably want to add it to […]
Google Chrome Wants to Warn Users Before Visiting All Non-HTTPS Sites
Webmasters will have one more reason why they should consider switching their sites to HTTPS as Google Chrome is planning to alert searchers when the site they are wanting to visit is unsecure via HTTPS. According to The Chromium Projects, the Google Chrome security team is proposing that the browser clearly states that HTTP webpages […]
Changing to HTTPS will not fix other Google penalty issues on the site
John Mueller recently commented that switching to HTTPS would not increase your rankings noticeably in Google, despite many webmasters scrambling to make their site’s secure following Google’s announcement that it was a lightweight ranking factor. Mueller has also made some additional comments about HTTPS as rankings, particularly that some webmasters were considering that it would […]
Is the Google update mostly SSL implementation issues?
There has been a lot of chatter about a possible Google update happening late Friday and over the weekend. However, while there were two UK link networks that were penalized, it is unclear if there was actually an update or if it is fallout from the panic SSL switches that many websites are in the […]
HTTPS as Ranking Signal Affects Content Sites Too
With Google now giving secured sites a slight boost in the search algorithm – and with the potential for that boost to be turned up even more – there have been plenty of webmasters who own content sites who are confident that this doesn’t apply to them. But in actuality, content sites can definitely benefit […]
Google Gives Search Algorithm Boost to Secure Sites
We all knew it would only be a matter of time before Google began weighting sites that were using HTTPS a bit higher than non-secure sites. Matt Cutts had hinted about it and Google has been stressing the importance of the secured web for quite some time, so many webmasters were being proactive about the […]