The reason that URLs have HTTPS in them is slightly confusing, but it's a good bit of information to know. When you open up the Internet on your phone or computer, you probably don’t think too much ...

Last Thursday, Google launched a new ranking signal to give HTTPS sites a ranking boost, a small ranking boost, to encourage webmasters to migrate their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. In our story from ...

Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, Garry Illyes, posted on Google+ early this morning with a clear message to site owners: “please tell search engines about your HTTPS URLs!” According to a small scale ...

We’re in the midst of a major change sweeping the Web: the familiar HTTP prefix is rapidly being replaced by HTTPS. That extra “S” in an HTTPS URL means your connection is secure and that it’s much ...

Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version. For ...

Google Chrome will switch to choosing HTTPS as the default protocol for all URLs typed in the address bar, starting with the web browser's next stable version. This feature entered testing last month, ...

Despite many sites already supporting HTTPS, 80% of those URLs do not show in the Google search results because the webmaster is communicating to Google to display the HTTP version. Gary Illyes, a ...

Here are all the best practices and common pitfalls you need to know before and after you make the switch from HTTP to HTTPS. While Google is giving you a nudge and trying to be as helpful as possible ...