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Sites secured with an SSL will get a ranking boost from Google

Sites secured with an SSL will get a ranking boost from Google

Google has recently announced that going HTTPS — adding a SSL 2048-bit key certificate on your site — will give you a ranking boost.

Google says this gives websites a small ranking benefit, only counting as a “very lightweight signal” within the overall ranking algorithm. In fact, Google said this carries “less weight than other signals such as high-quality content.” Based on their tests, Google says it has an impact on “fewer than 1% of global queries” but said they “may decide to strengthen” the signal because they want to “encourage all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS to keep everyone safe on the web.”

As you may recall, at SMX West, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said he’d love to see SSL a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm. Well, just a few months after that statement, and while he is on a leave break, Google is making it a happen. 

Help your website rank higher with an SSL certificate

As part of Google's ambitions to make the web safer it has announced it is now giving preference to secure websites and pages with HTTPS. To benefit from this boost, websites must carry SSL certificates. SSL certificates are easy to add to a domain and can be set up by us within 12-24 hours.

How an SSL certificate could benefit your website

Your customers will be able to protect the data that's transferred to and from your website.
SSL certificates encrypt data so hackers can't read it. This will protect sensitive data such as credit card numbers, passwords and more.

  • Give your customers peace of mind with the knowledge that all data is encrypted and safeguarded against third party access
  • Reduce costs and increase payment options by taking online payments without a third party

We provide SSL certificates from Globalsign for use within our hosting packages & as with or hosting packages provie a full managed service.
We can purchase and set up a 256 bit SSL certificate for just £125 a year or provide a super secure EV SSL & set up for £450 a year.

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Some other Geeky stuff that may be of interest

Google Runs HTTPS Ranking Signal In Real Time

Google Runs HTTPS Ranking Signal In Real Time

Google Runs HTTPS Ranking Signal In Real Time

Unlike Penguin or Panda algorithms, this is a ranking signal that is run in real time. As soon as Google indexes your new HTTPS URL, that URL will immediately see a tiny ranking boost because of the HTTPS URL. That doesn’t mean you will see your rankings jump from result number 5 to 4, but it will, behind the scenes, have a small, tiny, boost in the overall ranking algorithm.

Google’s HTTPS Ranking Signal Is On A Per-URL Basis

Google’s HTTPS Ranking Signal Is On A Per-URL Basis

If you have some parts of your site migrated to HTTPS and some parts not, Google will give the boost to the ones on the HTTPS URLs and not to the others. The signal is on a per-URL basis, and not on a sitewide basis. Of course, Google wants you to migrate your whole site to HTTPS but if you want to do it in stages or test it out, technically you can do it on a URL by URL basis.



HTTPS Ranking Signal Is Unrelated To Google Panda Or Other Algorithms

HTTPS Ranking Signal Is Unrelated To Google Panda Or Other Algorithms

For some reason, some webmasters felt that the new HTTPS ranking signal was part of Google’s Panda algorithm. That is not the case; the HTTPS ranking signal is a standalone signal that is independent from any other ranking signal or algorithms.

 

Resources

http://www.googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKQULFm2BQA#

http://searchengineland.com/explainer-googles-new-ssl-https-ranking-factor-works-200492

 

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