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May, 19 2023

• Google: SSL Certificate Does Not Boost SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller says that an SSL certificate won't boost your SEO - Search Engine Journal

May, 3 2023

• Chrome HTTPS Lock Icon Is Going Away via @sejournal, @martinibuster The Chrome lock icon scheduled to be replaced by another one that is less misleading - Search Engine Journal

October, 24 2022

• How to do a content audit as painlessly as possible Get a clear view of how your content helps (or hinders) your business goals. Here's a step-by-step [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 23 2022

• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google's Overlapping Algorithm Updates, Product Reviews Update, Confusing HTTPS Report & Google Ads Serving Bug In this week's video, we cover how Google said they try not to overlap search algorithm updates but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 19 2022

• Confusion: Google Search Console's HTTPS Is Invalid And Might Prevent Indexing Last week, Google rolled out a new Search Console report for HTTPS, and with that came a lot of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 15 2022

• Google Adds New HTTPS Report to Search Console via @sejournal, @BrianFr07823616 Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new HTTPS report in Search Console.  The [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 14 2022

• The new HTTPS report in Search Console Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the [...] - Google Webmaster Central
• Google launches new HTTPS report in Google Search Console This new report now shows why some pages are not being served as HTTPS. - Search Engine Land
• Google Search Console Adds New HTTPS Report Google has added a new HTTPS report within Google Search Console. This new report now shows you not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 19 2022

• Google: HTTPS Is Not A Requirement To Rank In Google Search Google's John Mueller was asked if Google still ranks sites that are on HTTP (not over HTTPS), i.e. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 29 2022

• Google: “Always Try” To Replace HTTP Links With HTTPS via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller says you should always try to replace internal links [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 9 2021

• Google: HTTPS Ranking Boost Even With Other Poor Page Experience Signals Darcy Burk asked John Mueller of Google if you still get the HTTPS ranking boost if you have HTTPS, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 10 2021

• Google Search Console Bug: Insufficient HTTPS Coverage On Your Site For the past couple of weeks or so, well, really since page experience report launched in late [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 31 2020

• Google on 307/HSTS Redirects (HTTP to HTTPS) How Google handles 307/HSTS redirects is thoroughly explained in the latest ‘Ask Google [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 4 2020

• How to Handle SSL Certificates When Merging Domains? Google answers whether you should keep an SSL certificate on an old domain when merging with [...] - Search Engine Journal

January, 13 2020

• Google: We Treat Links On HTTP & HTTPS Pages Equally Google's John Mueller said a link on an HTTP page is just as valuable to Google as a link on an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 25 2019

• How to get brand URLs in Google AMP cache by extending TLS for Web Package Google has successfully rushed a solution with an implementation scheme that will display your [...] - Search Engine Land

January, 29 2019

• Myth Busting: HTTPS Not Required For Google Indexing & Ranking Google's John Mueller did some myth busting this morning around HTTPS. There are always some SSL [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 10 2018

• Why & how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol A few days ago, Fatih Ozkosemen and I led an episode of the AdSense On Air series . This program [...] - Google Webmaster Central

August, 22 2018

• Google: We Strongly Recommend 301 Redirects For HTTPS Migrations We all know that making HTTP to HTTPS site migrations is unique, it is treated differently by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 21 2018

• Google Search Console Notifying Users About HTTPS Migration Errors Google Search Console is sending notifications to site owners about errors identified in recent [...] - Search Engine Journal
• Google Sending Out Notifications for HTTPS Site Migration Issues Google is now sending out a new notice to search console users detailing issues that Google has [...] - The SEM Post

August, 17 2018

• Google Search Console Sends Useful HTTPS Gone Wrong Notifications Google is now sending useful notifications about issues when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS. In [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 13 2018

• Google: When You Switch To HTTPS There Is No Rush On Indexing Or Deindexing Gary Illyes from Google said when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS, there is no need to rush. Just [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 19 2018

• Bing Ads Strongly Recommends You Use HTTPS URLs Bing announced 10 days ago that they are now strongly recommending that you switch all your ad URLs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

June, 21 2018

• Risks in Using Self-Signed SSL Certificates What to do if you receive a warning about a self-signed SSL certificate. - Search Engine Journal

June, 1 2018

• Google Search Supports TLS 1.1 & 1.2 With Upcoming PCI Compliance Requirements On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 18 2018

• Google Chrome Issues Final Warning on HTTPS Chrome issued a final warning to remaining websites that have not switched over to HTTPS. October [...] - Search Engine Journal

April, 24 2018

• Google HTTPS Ranking Boost Is Very Subtle, Per URL & Not Industry Specific It has been a while since we mentioned the Google HTTPS ranking boost that launched in August 2014. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 14 2018

• Report: 70% Of Google's Page One Search Results Are HTTPS This morning the folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that over 70% of the page one Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 12 2018

• Google Engineer Lists 4 Powerful Reasons Why Sites Should Upgrade to HTTPS Google Chrome engineer shares four powerful reasons why sites should migrate to HTTPS. - Search Engine Journal

February, 9 2018

• Google Sets Deadline for HTTPS and Warns Publishers to Upgrade Soon Google set a deadline for July 2018, when Chrome will begin warning users about insecure web pages. [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 21 2017

• Moving To HTTPS, Transfer Parameter Handling In Google Search Console Just a heads up, if you are migrating your site from HTTP to HTTPS and you have parameter handling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 16 2017

• Google Says Change Of Address Tool Unnecessary For HTTPS Migrations Since Google released their HTTPS ranking boost, SEOs and webmasters have been migrating their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 2 2017

• Moving to HTTPS? Don’t miss this unique opportunity! Google recently announced that forms on web pages over HTTP will be marked as 'not secure' in [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 25 2017

• Google: When Going HTTPS, Migrate Whole Site At Once Google's John Mueller said at the 15:36 minute mark into the last Google hangout from Friday that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 24 2017

• Half of Google’s First Page Results are HTTPS, According to Moz Moz reports the number of HTTPS results on Google’s first page has risen from 30% to 50% over [...] - Search Engine Journal
• Moz report: 50% of page one search results are HTTPS Based on the trend of sites switching to HTTPS and what is ranking in Google, we may see 70% of the [...] - Search Engine Land
• Google: No Plans To Boost HTTPS Ranking Factor As you know, back in 2014, Google released the HTTPS ranking boost to give a little ranking boost [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 31 2017

• Google Chrome SSL certificate proposal could affect millions of websites Millions of websites that use SSL certificates issued by Symantec and affiliated resellers could [...] - Search Engine Watch

February, 24 2017

• HTTPS Pages on Front Page of Google Could Reach 50% by June 2017 HTTPs pages on the front page of Google search results could reach 50% by late May/early June 2017. - Search Engine Journal

February, 17 2017

• 45% Of Google's Top Search Results Are HTTPS Dr. Pete from Moz posted on Twitter that he projects that by June 2017, 50% of the top search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 8 2017

• Google: HTTPS URLs Likely Canonical In Their Duplicate Content Clustering Algorithm This is probably an obvious and logical statement but Gary Illyes of Google felt the need to post [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 31 2017

• Google: Tell Us About Your HTTPS Migrations Again Gary Illyes from Google wants to hear feedback on success, failure or other issues during your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 4 2017

• A comprehensive guide to SSL certificates Need to secure your site, but not sure where to start? Check out columnist Stephanie LeVonne's [...] - Search Engine Land

December, 27 2016

• HTTPS Required for Collecting Sensitive Information in Chrome as of January 2017 Google has cautioned site owners that, at the end of January 2017, Chrome will mark sites without [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 19 2016

• How Google Handles New HTTPS Pages With Mixed Content Warnings If you have been thinking of switching over to HTTPS but haven’t wanted to deal with fixing [...] - The SEM Post
• Switching to HTTPS? Leave HTTP Site Up to Run Parallel While Fixing Problems If you know you will have some technical issues to clean up when you switch to HTTPS, John Mueller [...] - The SEM Post

December, 5 2016

• Google: Going HTTPS vs Switching URL Structures Are Different An interesting question came up during the Google webmaster hangout on YouTube Live this past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 2 2016

• WordPress is Doubling Down on HTTPS in 2017 In 2017, WordPress will start introducing features which require websites have HTTPS available. - Search Engine Journal

November, 4 2016

• Here’s to more HTTPS on the web! Cross-posted from the Google Security Blog . Security has always been critical to the web, but [...] - Google Webmaster Central

October, 28 2016

• Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Rankings, SEO, Penalties, HTTPS, AMP, AdWords, Maps & Bing Ads This week in search... - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 27 2016

• Moz: 40% Of Google's Top Search Results Are HTTPS, Up From 25% Earlier This Year In January, Moz reported that 25% of the Google search results were HTTPS. Meaning of the top [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 21 2016

• Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Interstitials, Penguin Droppings, HTTPS, AdWords & More This week I cover more on the Google mobile interstitial ad penalty. I also discuss cases of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 19 2016

• Google HTTPS Boost Still Goes To Insecure Pages, If They Are Listed As HTTPS The other day, I interviewed Gary Illyes of Google and he said that the only factor Google looks at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

October, 18 2016

• Google’s HTTPS algorithm still only looks at the URL to give ranking boost Believe it or not, insecure web pages can still get the HTTPS ranking boost. - Search Engine Land

August, 18 2016

• This Googlers Jokes About The HTTPS Ranking Signal Roberto Bayardo, a research scientist at Google, who works specifically on computational [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 15 2016

• Did Google Boosts HTTPS Ranking Signal? Nope But More HTTPS Results In Top Ten. Both RankRanger and Mozcast are showing a nice uptick in the number of HTTPS results in the top [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 28 2016

• Google FAQs For HTTP To HTTPS Migration For News Publishers In February... - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 7 2016

• HTTPS websites account for 30% of all Google search results As of late June, 32.5% of page one Google results now use the https: protocol, according to a new [...] - Search Engine Watch

July, 5 2016

• 30% of Search Results are Now HTTPS, According to Moz Study Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz has put together data which suggests Google is slowing but surely [...] - Search Engine Journal

June, 27 2016

• 34% Of Google Search Results Are HTTPS Gary Illyes from Google said last week at SMX Advanced that 34% of the Google search results are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

April, 14 2016

• HTTP to HTTPS: An SEO’s guide to securing a website Despite the numerous benefits of switching to HTTPS, many SEOs and website owners have not done so. [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 5 2016

• When Switching to HTTPS, Google Recrawls Faster to Process Move John Mueller recently posted a Q&A for moving a site from HTTP to HTTPS.  He has answered [...] - The SEM Post

February, 2 2016

• Google's FAQ On HTTP To HTTPS Migration Google's John Mueller posted a FAQ on Google+ around questions asked about site migrations from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 22 2016

• Live Now: Google Cache Goes HTTPS For HTTPS Sites As we reported last week, the Google cache was going HTTPS but I wasn't able to consistently bring [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 14 2016

• Google Cache Goes HTTPS It seems like Google has begun to switch their cache results pages over to HTTPS. It seems to be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 12 2016

• Tool To Find Mixed Content Issues To Fix Your Broken HTTPS/SSL Lock John Mueller of Google reshared a post on Google+ originally shared by Google's Ilya Grigorik with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 7 2016

• Google: HTTPS URLs Even That Aren't Valid Still Get Ranking Boost Back in August we reported that even invalid HTTPS pages will still get the Google HTTPS ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

January, 6 2016

• Google: Self-Signed SSL Certificate Won't Work For HTTPS Ranking Boost We know Google has an HTTPS Ranking Boost. Initially when it launched, all it checked was to see if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

December, 29 2015

• Google Confirms No Loss in Link Authority on HTTPS Implementation Google’s John Mueller has confirmed via a comment on Google+ there’s no loss in link [...] - Search Engine Journal

December, 18 2015

• Google to Prioritize the Indexing of HTTPS Pages Google will now index a site’s HTTPS pages by default, even if an HTTP equivalent exists. - Search Engine Journal
• Google Indexing HTTPS By Default Forget mobile first, now it's HTTPS first. Google announced last night that they will be indexing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Now Prioritizing Secure HTTPS URLs Over Non-Secure HTTP URLs By Default Google has announced that they will now be giving preference to secure HTTPS URLs on websites over [...] - The SEM Post

December, 17 2015

• Google To Begin To Index HTTPS Pages First, Before HTTP Pages When Possible If your pages work on HTTPS, Google will likely show the HTTPS version over the HTTP version [...] - Search Engine Land
• Indexing HTTPS pages by default At Google, user security has always been a top priority. Over the years, we’ve worked hard to [...] - Google Webmaster Central

November, 11 2015

• Google Sending Messages To Webmasters For SSL/TLS Certificate Not Matching Google starts notifying webmasters of broken SSL/TLS certificates, will this lead to a stricter [...] - Search Engine Land
• New Google Search Console Notifications For SSL/TLS Mismatch Errors Google is now sending out new Google Search Console messages for SSL/TLS certificate does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Begins Sending Warnings for SSL Certificate Issues Google is now sending out warning letters to webmasters when they have an issue with the secure [...] - The SEM Post

October, 14 2015

• Google: When Migrating To HTTPS, You Need To Move Your Disavow File When you migrate your web site from HTTP to HTTPS with the sole reason of gaining the HTTPS Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 15 2015

• Google’s Gary Illyes: HTTPS May Break Ties Between Two Equal Search Results In a video hangout Monday with Bruce Clay, Google's Gary Illyes discussed the HTTPS ranking boost [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 28 2015

• Google: HTTPS Content Mismatch Errors May Not Get Ranking Boost In Future In this morning's Google hangout on Google+, John Mueller said at the 18:30 mark that Google may [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 21 2015

• Google: Site Command By HTTPS vs HTTP Is An Idea Worth Revisiting The site command isn't something that works incredibly well. Although it is a good way to do site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 18 2015

• Google: It's Wrong & Bad To Tell Your Clients Not To Go HTTPS Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter this morning that any SEO "recommending against going [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
• Google: You Shouldn't See Negative Impact After Going To HTTPS Coming off this morning's story named Google: It's Wrong & Bad To Tell Your Clients Not To Go [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 22 2015

• Google: HTTPS Acts As A Dealbreaker In A Google Ranking Tie The Google HTTPS ranking algorithm, which launched some time ago, hasn't proven to many webmasters [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 20 2015

• Sites With Most Search Impressions Are Now HTTPS, Google Says The top ten verified sites in Google Search Console, according to search impressions, are now all [...] - Search Engine Journal