16 Aug
2019
16 Aug
'19
10:58 a.m.
From: Christian Corti
> An additional issue, I think, is that Google is
deprecating sites that
> use HTTP, versus HTTPS.
Not true, in contrary, Google even crawls through FTP
sites :-)
I did say "deprecate", not 'ignore totally'! :-)
Here's what I know: An e-commerce site where I do a lot of business announced
that they would switch to using HTTPS. I grumped, because I'd have to use a
browser I don't like as much. The owner wrote back as follows:
"next month Google will begin to demote all websites that are not https
secure"
I assume he knew what he was talking about (via his Web-site engineering
people). I suppose I could research it, but I don't have the time right
at the moment. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows more.
Noel
16 Aug
16 Aug
11:40 a.m.
Noel Chiappa via cctalk writes:
I assume he knew what he was talking about (via his
Web-site engineering
people). I suppose I could research it, but I don't have the time right
at the moment. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows more.
It is true. Google now marks any site that is not using HTTPS as
"insecure", and uses that as a negative weight in their rankig
algorithm.
I have mixed feelings about this. I do think that FORCING people to use
TLS encryption is a bad thing. On the other hand, we live in strange
times -- many ISPs are intercepting HTTP traffic and injecting content
into the pages. Using TLS encryption is an effective way to avoid this
(for now). I personally enforce TLS on all my sites just for that
reason.
Noel
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA, USA
web at loomcom.com
7:24 p.m.
I assume he
knew what he was talking about (via his Web-site engineering
people). I suppose I could research it, but I don't have the time right
at the moment. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows more.
It is true. Google now marks any site that is not using HTTPS as
"insecure", and uses that as a negative weight in their rankig
algorithm.
I have mixed feelings about this. I do think that FORCING people to use
TLS encryption is a bad thing. On the other hand, we live in strange
times -- many ISPs are intercepting HTTP traffic and injecting content
into the pages. Using TLS encryption is an effective way to avoid this
(for now). I personally enforce TLS on all my sites just for that
reason.
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