Security is one of the top priorities for Google. We make a significant investment in ensuring that our services are built with the highest-quality security standards, such as secure HTTPS encryption as a default. It means that those who use Search, Gmail, and Google Drive, for instance, are automatically connected to an encrypted connection to Google.
In addition to our own, We’re also trying to improve the security of the Internet more secure for all users. The main focus is ensuring that websites that users access through Google are safe. For example, we’ve developed resources to assist webmasters to prevent and repair security vulnerabilities on their sites.
We’d like to go further. In Google’s conference just a few months ago, we called”HTTPS everywhere” “HTTPS everywhere” across the internet.
We’ve also observed increasing numbers of webmasters implementing HTTPS (also called HTTP over TLS, also known as Transport Layer Security) on their websites and social media, which is very encouraging.
In light of this, In the last couple of months, we’ve been conducting tests to determine the use of secure encrypted connections as a signal for our algorithm for ranking websites. We’ve had positive results, so we’re beginning to consider using HTTPS as an indication of rank. At present, it’s an extremely light signal, affecting less than 1% of all global queries, and carries less importance than other signals, like quality content, and we allow webmasters the time to transition to HTTPS. However, over time we might decide to increase the strength of it since we want to urge all owners of websites to change to HTTP in favor of HTTPS to ensure everyone’s safety online.
In the next few weeks, we’ll release specific best practices (it’s available in the documentation currently) to help make TLS adoption more simple and to avoid common pitfalls. Here are some simple tips to start:
- Select the type of certificate you require for single, multi-domain, or wildcard.
- Make use of 2048-bit keys for key certification.
- Utilize relative URLs for resources that are located within one secure server
- Use protocol-relative URLs for all other domains.
- Take a look at our Site Move guide for more information on how you can change the address of your site.
- Do not block your HTTPS site from crawling by using robots.txt
- Let your pages be indexed by search engines when it is possible. Avoid using the tag no index robots meta tag.
If your site is running on HTTPS, You can check the security level and configuration using Qualys Lab. Qualys Laboratory tool. If you’re worried about TLS and the performance of your website, check out. Are you using TLS quickly enough? Of course, If you have any concerns or questions or concerns, you can leave a comment on the Websitemaster Help Forums.
We’d like to see more sites that use HTTPS in the near future. Let’s make the internet more secure!
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