Using HTTPS as a Ranking Signal

Security is the most priority in everything most especially on internet, as a online business man or woman your identity supply to a particular website in very important and it must be protected to avoid fraudster from braking in to your account.

You must notice before you supply your information to any website immediately you hit your enter button, the HTTP on the address bar must change to HTTPS showing that the website is fully secure. Google are so concern about the security of the user investing millions of Dollar to make sure that the user have full security on internet, which  means that people using Search, Gmail and Google Drive, for example, automatically have a secure connection to Google.

Beyond just surfing net, Google is working on internet security and to make is more safer broadly for the user,  . For instance, Google have  created resources to help webmasters prevent and fix security breaches on their sites.

“We’ve also seen more and more webmasters adopting HTTPS (also known as HTTP over TLS, or Transport Layer Security), on their website, which is encouraging.” By Google

For these reasons, over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. We've seen positive results, so we're starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it's only a very lightweight signal — affecting fewer than 1% of global queries, and carrying less weight than other signals such as high-quality content — while we give webmasters time to switch to HTTPS. But over time, we may decide to strengthen it, because we’d like to encourage all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS to keep everyone safe on the web.

Here are some basic tips to get started to avoid mistakes:

·                     Decide the kind of certificate you need: single, multi-domain, or wildcard certificate

·                     Use 2048-bit key certificates

·                     Use relative URLs for resources that reside on the same secure domain

·                     Use protocol relative URLs for all other domains

·                     Check out our Site move article for more guidelines on how to change your website’s address

·                     Don’t block your HTTPS site from crawling using robots.txt

·                     Allow indexing of your pages by search engines where possible. Avoid the noindex robots meta tag.

We hope to see more websites using HTTPS in the future. Let’s all make the web more secure!

Signed by Google

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Posted byUnknown on August 18, 2014