Re: Must have SSL or dedicated IP address?

The search ranking bump that Google gives for https is so small (currently)
as to not really make a difference... of course, there are a ton of good
reasons to move to https regardless (we'll have some neat materials aimed
at web sysadmins and their bosses later this week). best, How

On Friday, September 16, 2016, Victor Costan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Separately from Chrome's policy: your ISP might be trying to sell you
> things you don't need.
>
> You can get SSL certificates for free from Let's Encrypt and StartSSL. You
> don't need a dedicated IP for SSL, thanks to SNI (Server Name Indication).
>
> I hope this helps you migrate to SSL. If you care about your vistor count,
> you probably care about your site being shown to your visitors exactly as
> you intended it to be. Without SSL, you're vulnerable to things like ad
> injection, which could degrade your visitors' experience and negatively
> impact your retention rate.
>
> Hope this helps,
>     Victor
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Christian Trujillo <
> [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>
>> I am a web developer and I was talking with a hosting provider we use for
>> marketing sites and blogs, as we were discussing opening a new account we
>> were told that google was looking at enforcing SSL or a dedicated IP
>> address on each site otherwise you would be penalized.
>>
>

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