DO I NEED AN SSL CERTIFCATE?
What is a SSL Certificate and Does my Website Need one? WHAT IS SSL?
SSL Certificates basically make your website encrypted so it is less likely or more difficult to be hacked or content stole. So why would I need an SSL Certificate I hear you ask. Well for quite a few more reasons than you would think.
SSL Certificates used to be a surefire way for anyone to see if a website is trustworthy and secure. I think this was mainly down to the expense. However SSL Certificate prices have come down in the past year or two and you can now get them for free with certain website builders. So an SSL certificate now is a must for any website if you want to appear trusted and safe. MORE SSL CERTIFICATE INFORMATION SSL Certificates create a padlock and therefore a https protocol (over port 443) that only allows secure connections from a web server to a browser. SSL is used to secure credit card transactions, data transfer and logins, and more recently is becoming the norm when securing browsing of social media sites. SSL Certificates secure:
When installed, it is possible to connect to the website over https://www.domain.com, as this tells the server to establish a secure connection with the internet browser. When a secure connection is established, all web traffic between the web server and the web browser will be apparently totally secure. Browsers will tell visitors a website is SSL secure via several visible trust indicators, most notably the HTTPS 
What a SSL Certificate looks like in your browser
SO with the cost of a SSL Certificate being anywhere from £40 up to over several hundreds per year, depending on type and reseller, is it WORTH IT?
Well let the TRIAL BEGIN. So over the next few weeks I will trial this and report back. What this space for further info on SSL Certificates and will this help my website rank higher? Further SSL Certificate Information SSL Certificates
SSL Certificates create a padlock and therefore a https protocol (over port 443) that only allows secure connections from a web server to a browser. SSL is used to secure credit card transactions, data transfer and logins, and more recently is becoming the norm when securing browsing of social media sites. SSL Certificates secure:
When installed, it is possible to connect to the website over https://www.domain.com, as this tells the server to establish a secure connection with the internet browser. When a secure connection is established, all web traffic between the web server and the web browser will be apparently totally secure. Browsers will tell visitors a website is SSL secure via several visible trust indicators, What this space for further info on SSL Certificates and will this help my website rank higher. SSL CERTIFICATE RENEWALS If you now perform any web search it is very rare that you find a website in search engine results that does not have a SSL certifcate. But not that rare for low traffic keywords. If a you or another website were using a SSL certificate and now don't, when you visit the page again it will either show up with a warning or not at all and will appear as a broken link. And may render some websites useless unless the user chooses to ignore the warning. Also I am finding this issue if the new SSL certificate has not been set up properly and in this instance you need to contact your hosting company. SSL CERTIFICATE UPDATE SSL UPDATE
There are a couple of things to watch out for if you install a SSL Certificate. Most of these issues only appear as errors, but could restrict access to certain files and could potentially be a problem for SEO. Especially if you have recently update your website to an SSL Certificate. Simply you need to make sure that everything within the website now uses https and other sources that have an SSL certificate. In the early days there were some large platforms (weebly included) that had failed to update its own internal and external links to https even though they were being delivered as https.
If you are using an SSL Certificate it is prudent that you make sure that:
When installing an SSL Certificate it's worthwhile you make sure you have enough time make all these necessary website changes. Because this could result in a drop off of traffic in some circumstances. |
SSL CERTIFICATES AND SEO
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