16 Aug
2019
16 Aug
'19
2:58 p.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
3:40 p.m.
Noel Chiappa via cctalk writes:
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
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Poulsbo, WA, USA
web at loomcom.com
11:24 p.m.
I offer both on Floodgap pages. I don't see why it should be an either-or
proposition.
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