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Should you get SSL for your website? Top 5 Reasons to go HTTPS, and Top 5 Drawbacks

Top 5 reasons to purchase SSL for your website, in David Letterman style, without the jokes lol: ssl-https 5) Increased Google Ranking Earlier we wrote about how adding SSL may give you a bump up in your Google search engine ranking, according to Google's August 2014 new ranking algorithm announcement .  In summary, last year Google said that SSL added to secure a website would be a very slight factor in determining site ranking, way behind good content, but that they... Continue reading
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Google Uses HTTPS (SSL) as a Website Ranking Signal

Last year in August, Google announced that it would use "HTTPS" as a ranking signal.  HTTPS denotes that a website's server has SSL installed, a security technology to encrypt the transfer of data, between the web server and user internet browser and vice versa.  When you have SSL installed, your website may be accessed via "https://..." , and the "http://" unsecure version of your website should be redirected automatically to it.  For example, on our UltimateWB website, we have https://www.ultimatewb.com... Continue reading
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