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

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