{"id":2246,"date":"2017-05-08T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morephotos.net\/photoblog\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2017-05-08T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:28:29","slug":"httpbit-ly2peemsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/httpbit-ly2peemsh\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Why HTTPS Should Be Enabled on Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \nvar dpwdrsid = 'FiYvK8ez8t'; \nvar dpwdrs_BaseURL = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/data.processwebsitedata.com\/rsv1\/\" : \"http:\/\/data.processwebsitedata.com\/rsv1\/\");\n(function () { \nvar va = document.createElement('script'); va.type = 'text\/javascript'; va.async = true; \nva.src = dpwdrs_BaseURL + 'Scripts\/rsvliveasync.js'; \nvar sv = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; sv.parentNode.insertBefore(va, sv); \n})(); \n<\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2247 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lock-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"https\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019re anything like me, there\u2019s been a time in your life when you\u2019ve asked, \u201cWhat the heck is https?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s that extra \u201cs\u201d for? Well, it turns out that the \u201cs\u201d stands for \u201cSSL,\u201d which stands for Secure Sockets Layer &#8212; the technology that encrypts your connection to a website, so that hackers can&#8217;t intercept any of your data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole concept of https is a pretty interesting topic on its own, and we go into detail more about it\u00a0here (Full Blog Article Link). But in addition to what it actually means, why is it so important? And why do you need it on your website?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, there are many reasons, we identified five of the more important ones. (Spoiler alert: A lot of them have to do with your search performance, so have a good look at what they mean for you.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>5 Reasons Why HTTPS Should Be Enabled on Your Website<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) It\u2019s good for search. \u00a0Google\u2019s algorithm requires sites to essentially battle it for top search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2)\u00a0It\u2019s better for users. (Safety)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>3) SSL is required for AMP.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAMP\u201d stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It\u2019s the technology that makes certain pages load almost instantaneously on mobile. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>4) Google is indexing mobile.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It turns out, Google is actually going to start indexing mobile, which means that its \u201calgorithms will eventually primarily use the mobile version of a site\u2019s content to rank pages from that site.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in order for a mobile site to be indexable, Google recommends several best practices, one of which is to \u201cstart by migrating to a secure site, HTTPS \u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>5) \u201cNot secure.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January 2017, Chrome 56 started displaying \u201cnot secure\u201d in the browser bar for any http (notice it\u2019s missing the \u201cs\u201d) sites that ask users for login or credit card information. This makes online shoppers and visitors nervous, not good for sales. How this for a good reason: only 3% of online shoppers say they would enter their credit card information on a site without the green padlock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There you have it. If you want your SEO to stay strong &#8212; on both desktop and mobile &#8212; and you don\u2019t want to lose digital sales revenue, it\u2019s easy to see why https should be enabled on your website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/SSLNC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to Register for SSL Security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re anything like me, there\u2019s been a time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morephotos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}