Waching daily Jun 27 2018

Hey everybody! Eagan here. Wanted to let you know that Google is actually going

to be marking websites that are not secure as not secure in the Chrome

browser and that's starting next month July 2018 so what that means is in your

website in the upper left corner when you're in chrome you want to see HTTPS

so to show it you're a secure site this is not just if you're an e-commerce site

or handling other sensitive information this is now for all web sites Google's

been pushing for a while that they really want HTTPS to become the standard

on the web because it's more secure I think it actually encrypts the

information between the browser and your server so this is really something

they've been pushing for for a while we've known that it's been our Google

ranking factor which means it can actually affect how high you show up

when people search for what you do so there's been a number of reasons to

switch to HTTPS and this is just the most recent one so it's really worth

doing Google announced it on their webmaster blog back earlier this year

and July is the day so we're either gonna see this secure green lock or

we're gonna see a warning says not secure and we already know it could be

affecting your ranking so these are all good reasons to switch to HTTPS talk to

your webmaster about this you can usually give it to your host so if

you're on WordPress and you use Bluehost is your host they actually have a free

SSL certificate which is the security certificate you can set that up and then

GoDaddy looks like they're doing about 60 bucks a year you can you can switch

to SSL so just want to let you know this has been a ranking factor for SEO for a

while one of Google's 200 factors they look at when they determine how high do

you rank when people search for your products or services and now it's all

the more reason because it's sort of a trust issue of do I see this secure

piece in the corner do I trust the website I'm on or do I not so those are

two great reasons to switch to SSL if you're not on it do it by July 2018 all

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