briansizzler Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Hello to the members of this community. I am a web design consultant by profession and I have joined this community to seek help with a critical issue I am thinking over these days. As we all know, website security is so mainstream these days and a wide majority of e-commerce shops and portals are transferring their sites from HTTP encryption to HTTPS. Although I am quite familiar with the technical aspects of this transition that leads towards more secure web experiences especially when there is a payment gateway integrated on your site, it must comply with latest protocols of internet security. However, my question here is a bit different from these facts. I am willing to ask if this implementation of securing websites is going to affect the site standings in the eyes of search engine bots anyway? I am sure we all are familiar with this behavior of search engine that is getting smarter every second. So, let's say I am working with a web design company which is purely working on web design and development projects for their clients, Do you think adding this more-secure encryption will help gain more prominence in the eyes of search crawlers? I am positive that I have made my point clear. Your valuable comments will be appreciated in this regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 I'm fairly certain that search engines rank secure sites more highly. In fact, I think Google is starting to drop non-secure sites from their results. All in all, there's very little reason not to implement HTTPS all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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