Google Officially Announces SSL Helps Ranking

[critter74854]

Hi All,

I would hope most of you guys on this thread already know this, or for those that are new to SEO here is a link to an announcement Google made not long ago about having an SSL certificate will improve ranking to your sites.


http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

 

[hrvat]

Thanks, great..

 

[studio52]

Sounds great, but no ssl certs. allowed in free hosting.....

 

[essellar]

@studio52 - You can get "universal SSL" using Cloudflare. The traffic between your users and the Cloudflare network is HTTPS/SSL, even when the traffic between Cloudflare and your actual hosting server is HTP/clear.