{"id":60,"date":"2014-08-06T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2017-03-31T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T07:17:39","slug":"ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/2014\/08\/06\/ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase Google SEO Ranking by using SSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Goolge has annouced that they started to use HTTPS (SSL) as a ranking signal. At first, it is a lightweight signal rather than other signals like high-quality content since Google wants to give webmasters time to change to use HTTPS (buying &amp; installing SSL Certificate). Now, Google may strengthen HTTPS ranking signal in order to keep everyone safe on the web.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have an SSL Certificate, buying and installing it to your web server is your first priority. Here are some basic tips for getting started from Google.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide the kind of certificate you need: single, multi-domain, or wildcard certificate<\/li>\n<li>Use 2048-bit key certificates<\/li>\n<li>Use relative URLs for resources that reside on the same secure domain<\/li>\n<li>Use protocol relative URLs for all other domains<\/li>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/6033049?utm_source=wmx_blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=tls_en_post\">Site move article<\/a> for more guidelines on how to change your website\u2019s address<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t block your HTTPS site from crawling using robots.txt<\/li>\n<li>Allow indexing of your pages by search engines where possible. Avoid the noindex robots meta tag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goolge has annouced that they started to use HTTPS (SSL) as a ranking signal. At first, it is a lightweight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[8,27,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}