HTTPS & Secure Search

Website Security: Getting Started With HTTPS

Have you ever noticed that some URLs start with “http” and others with “https”? Perhaps you noticed that extra “s” when you were browsing websites that require giving over sensitive information, like when you were paying bills online. In this HubSpot video, the HubSpot crew will take a look at solutions for SSL and TLS …

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In July 2018, The Chrome Browser Will Mark Non-HTTPS Sites as “not secure’

  Earlier this month, Google has announced that its Speed Update will be rolling out in July.  On February 8, it was announced that Google will then also mark all sites that don’t use HTTPS as ‘not secure.’ The move will take place along the side of the release of Chrome 68 and will look like this in a …

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Moving To HTTPS? Don’t Miss This Unique Opportunity!

By now, most SEOs have heard that moving web pages with forms to HTTPS is necessary to avoid  being shown as “not secure” in Chrome 62. By moving your site to HTTPS, webmasters will gain a number of benefits, but there is a unique SEO opportunity which is easy to overlook.  If done properly, this opportunity can …

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Moz Report: 50% Of Page One Search Results Are HTTPS

Pete Meyers, who works at Moz, reports that according to their keyword tracking tools, half of the page on search results in Google show HTPS URLs.  When compared to July 2016 reslts, this is up from 30 percent.  70 percent of the page one search results could be HTTPS by the end of the year. Below is a chart …

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Google Search Console Warns Of Nonsecure Collection Of Passwords With Upcoming Chrome Browser Release

Google has began sending out notices through the Google Search Console to websites that have login and password fields on pages that aren’t over HTTPS.  The notification says that nonsecure Collection of Passwords will trigger warnings in Chrome 56 for domain.com. In January, Chrome 56 is going to issue a security warning for web pages that have …

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Google’s Gary Illyes: HTTPS May Break Ties Between Two Equal Search Results

Remember back when we were told by Google’s Gary Illyes that by switching over to HTTPS would help improve your online ranking?  Well, Gary’s at it again by saying that Google’s HTTPS ranking boost could end up being a tiebreaker when the quality signals for two search results would otherwise be the same.  He spoke about this, and …

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