Website Security and Google Rankings?

[VaDwayne]

I built another website for more practice and the possibilty of making a couple of extra bucks. I really don't have time to market, or really even want to, but figured I may pick up a couple of sales a month with a decent site.

866-674-3044 | Virginia Medicare Supplement Insurance

I have a couple of questions I would like an opinion on.

1. Does making a site secure increase Google ranking?
2. Search terms? If I search "Staunton Va Medicare supplement", "Waynesboro Va Medicare supplement", "Lexington Va Medicare supplement", I show up at the top of Yahoo and Bing, and on the first page of Google. Is this because of bad keywords or search terms (people aren't searching these keywords)? I'm not sure how to research good keywords.

Any help or advice would be appreciated?

 

[BlockO]

1. Does making a site secure increase Google ranking?

Google announced last year that having a secure site does in fact give a boost in rankings, but only a very minor boost. However, they did hint around that it might weigh heavier in the future. Here's the link if you want to look at it....

Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites