What is HTTPS/SSL and will it improve my SEO ranking?

[Emmanuel Sopitan]

Hi there,

What is HTTPS and SSL?
If I install it on my blog, will it boost my SEO Rankings?

 

[sam.hunt0710]

HTTPS :- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure

SSL : - Secure Socket layer

Yes for sure you will get improvement in your ranking , cause google love secure sites .

 

[Hostlumina]

Some links I recommend going through (straight from google blog) worth reading for some info in regards SSL.

HTTPS as a ranking signal:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

Some information in regards SSL from google webmaster:
https://support.google.com/webmaste...&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tls_en_post

 

[Emmanuel Sopitan]

Yes for sure you will get improvement in your ranking , cause google love secure sites .

Thanks you guys for your suggestions, I tried to apply HTTPS for my websites but their rankings are just improved a bit, no more if compared to HTTP version. Anyway it did help to improve security for my website it is a good point to have HTTPS for website.

 

[grawhill]

Google has encouraged webmasters to make the migration to a secure site for a while now and has been giving an increasing amount of weight in ranking boosts to websites that are HTTPS.