Secure Your Website With SSL Before Google Is Blocked

Over the past few years, Google has tried to improve website security on the internet with HTTPS encryption. Since last year, Google has marked websites that started with HTTP marked as "not secure" or unsafe. This is one of Google's efforts to advocate HTTPS. Starting in July 2018, along with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTPS websites as "not secure". You can get HTTPS on your website by installing and activating SSL.

Also read: Benefits of SSL for SEO and User Security

What is HTTPS?
Before we discuss further, there may be those of you who don't know what HTTPS is. HTTPS is a secure version of HyperText Transfer Protocol or which may be better known as HTTP. The letter 'S' on HTTPS stands for 'secure'. HTTPS ensures that communication between the user's browser and the website server runs safely. Usually, to find out if a website has become HTTPS is through the green address bar or the lock symbol that appears on the browser. This indicates that the connection between the browser and the website server is running safely.

Why do you need HTTPS?
Initially, HTTPS was used by e-commerce websites or anyone who received online payments to ensure that sensitive confidential payment details were sent safely to prevent them from being stolen by hackers.

However, increasing online security has become increasingly important in recent years and Google continues to emphasize the importance of HTTPS for websites. Even Google announced that HTTPS will be a factor in their ranking algorithm. This makes many websites immediately switch to HTTPS.

Therefore HTTPS is highly recommended for any business that focuses on convincing visitors to their website, securing their website, achieving high rankings on search results pages and maintaining their online operations in the future.

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Google advises all websites to switch to HTTPS
As mentioned above, many websites have switched to HTTPS so that their websites are safe for everyone. Google noted that last year the progress that was running was good:

More than 68% of Google Chrome's traffic on Android and Windows is protected
More than 78% of Google Chrome traffic on Chrome OS and Mac is protected
81 of the 100 most popular websites already use HTTPS
Google says that Chrome itself is indeed designed so that the HTTPS settings can be done easily.

Chrome's new interface will help users understand that all HTTP websites are not safe. This is done so that the websites immediately switch to HTTPS. HTTPS is also easier and cheaper to use now. With HTTPS, you can improve website performance and powerful features that may not be available for HTTP. For developers, Google has provided HTTPS set-up guides for all of you.

How to get an SSL certificate
To get https in front of your website, you need an SSL certificate. Fortunately, SSL is very easy and simple to set up. If you try to access your website with https before installing an SSL certificate, you will only see errors on your screen.

To use an SSL certificate, you need hosting with a dedicated IP Address. Most small web hosting companies usually put your website in shared IP where several websites use the same IP address location. With a dedicated IP address, you make sure that the traffic that goes to the IP address only goes to your website.

After that, you need to prove that your website is yours. This is done by making an SSL certificate. This certificate is a paragraph containing numbers and letters that only your website knows. When people visit your website via HTTPS, the password will be checked and if appropriate, they will automatically verify the security of your website. They will also encrypt everything that enters and leaves the website. To enable and install SSL, you can ask your hosting company for help. If so, then your website can be accessed via HTTPS.

Free SSL from seoblogger
Well, if you use seo-blogger hosting, you will immediately get the Let's Encrypt feature and a free SSL certificate! Let ‟s Encrypt itself is a free, automatic and open certificate authority that is run for the public interest. This is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Let Enc Encrypt provides digital certificates that website owners need to enable HTTPS (SSL / TLS) for websites, free, in the easiest way to use. If you buy an annual hosting package from seo-blogger, you will get Let's Encrypt free.

Also read: Installation Tutorial Let's Encrypt SSL Free

For SSL features , Seo-blogger also has Grade A Guarantee SSL. What does it mean? All seo-blogger VPS clouds are secured according to the best standards of SSL Labs for all SSL certificate products. You can get free SSL for every annual hosting package purchase. So, as you can see, the security of your website will be very well maintained if you use hosting from seo-blogger. We ensure that your website will always be safe.

Then how to get it? After you buy the hosting package from seo-blogger, you can contact, our ninja supports to help you install and activate your SSL website.

In this article we have discussed all about SSL. As mentioned above, HTTPS has a big influence not only for website security but also for your website's SEO.

To know more about website security, we have just released our latest e-book, 2018 Cyber ​​Security Report . In this e-book, we discuss everything about website security, including web security cases that are the most talked about in the past year.

In addition, as an Indonesian cloud hosting company that prioritizes security, we will also hold the Dewatalks 2018 event. This year's seo-blogger event will discuss all about web security by bringing in speakers who are experts in the field of website security. Waiting for the next news about seobloggers!

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