I just finished reading a Quick Sprout article by Neil Patel. It's all about whether you have any benefits beyond the typical "your visitor may be impressed by the https" symbol in your address bar. Google has announced, on more than one occasion, they look at this in their algo's, but recently they have upped the anti by declaring outright that it has weight in their ranking algo's.
Let's face it, Google continues to ratchet up the bar to higher standards every week of the year. We've all seen it, experienced the results, and for those that fight it, your loss is inevitable. In order to play the game, you've got to engage the requirements of the SE's and quit complaining about it. None of us can ever fight a battle against the SE's and those that continue to try and cheat the systems always fall to the way side.
As is typical, everyone in the biz, especially the SEO pros, have struck up conversations and debates about it, but in the end they all agree that "if you can't beat them, then join them"!
While it is not admitted to be a big factor, it is evidently something to engage now or eventually in the very near future. Why wait? The expense is not all that demanding. Besides, we all know everyone will start adopting it now anyways. When the big G says, jump, eventually everyone says "how high".
The indicators say that little more that 1% of sites now sport the secure flag of https, but that is ten fold of just three years ago when it was touted as being less than .12% of sites. Projection suggest that by 2018 over 3% of sites conducting business online will be investing in security certificates and by 2020 over 15%.
There are other benefits, it makes a safer environment for those giving us sensitive information about themselves as well as anything like credit card info and such.
If Google, and the other SE's, make this an across the board ranking and security factor, we must consider the Borg have arrived and that we will be "assimilated" and made a part of the collective!
Are you using security certificates, are you displaying the security of https in your sites address bar? If not, tell us why. If you are, tell us why and whether or not you feel it has had an impact on your rankings.
Let's face it, Google continues to ratchet up the bar to higher standards every week of the year. We've all seen it, experienced the results, and for those that fight it, your loss is inevitable. In order to play the game, you've got to engage the requirements of the SE's and quit complaining about it. None of us can ever fight a battle against the SE's and those that continue to try and cheat the systems always fall to the way side.
As is typical, everyone in the biz, especially the SEO pros, have struck up conversations and debates about it, but in the end they all agree that "if you can't beat them, then join them"!
While it is not admitted to be a big factor, it is evidently something to engage now or eventually in the very near future. Why wait? The expense is not all that demanding. Besides, we all know everyone will start adopting it now anyways. When the big G says, jump, eventually everyone says "how high".
The indicators say that little more that 1% of sites now sport the secure flag of https, but that is ten fold of just three years ago when it was touted as being less than .12% of sites. Projection suggest that by 2018 over 3% of sites conducting business online will be investing in security certificates and by 2020 over 15%.
There are other benefits, it makes a safer environment for those giving us sensitive information about themselves as well as anything like credit card info and such.
If Google, and the other SE's, make this an across the board ranking and security factor, we must consider the Borg have arrived and that we will be "assimilated" and made a part of the collective!
Are you using security certificates, are you displaying the security of https in your sites address bar? If not, tell us why. If you are, tell us why and whether or not you feel it has had an impact on your rankings.
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