Realdude
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Beginning in March 2018, Google Chrome will flag your website if it doesn’t have an SSL certificate. Your clients coming to your site will see ‘Not Secure’ in the URL bar.
This is pretty serious! With Chrome version 62 websites that have any kind of text input (login, contact form, search, etc.) will need an SSL certificate. For example if you look at the bar at the top of this forum you will see https which indicates it is secure. You need to install SSL to avoid any risks or warnings.
What is a SSL Certificate? The easiest explanation is it creates a private "tunnel" between your website and your visitor.
But it doesn't stop there. Google uses what they call "ranking signals" to determine who gets listed in the search results. The title of an article in Searchengineland, "Google To Begin To Index HTTPS Pages First, Before HTTP Pages" pretty much tells the story for anyone wanting good ranking.
There are free SSL Certificates for example Let’s Encrypt is free and currently securing 47 million domains.
This is pretty serious! With Chrome version 62 websites that have any kind of text input (login, contact form, search, etc.) will need an SSL certificate. For example if you look at the bar at the top of this forum you will see https which indicates it is secure. You need to install SSL to avoid any risks or warnings.
What is a SSL Certificate? The easiest explanation is it creates a private "tunnel" between your website and your visitor.
But it doesn't stop there. Google uses what they call "ranking signals" to determine who gets listed in the search results. The title of an article in Searchengineland, "Google To Begin To Index HTTPS Pages First, Before HTTP Pages" pretty much tells the story for anyone wanting good ranking.
There are free SSL Certificates for example Let’s Encrypt is free and currently securing 47 million domains.
