What is HTTPS, and how can it impact your search rankings? See what Google has to say and what you need to know for your SEO strategy. Recent updates to Google Search documentation have led to ...

Google will begin marking HTTP pages where users can enter data as “not secure” in its Google Chrome browser come October. The change will appear in the release of Chrome 62, and will expand on the ...

Google's ever-changing Transparency Report now includes a page dedicated to tracking encryption progress both at Google and on some of the web's most trafficked sites. Dubbed HTTPS at Google, the new ...

On a webmaster video hangout yesterday, Google trends analyst John Mueller strongly recommended that people migrating from HTTP to HTTPS do so with 301 redirects on a per-URL basis. He said you should ...

Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji announced that going forward, Google will try to index HTTPS pages first, before the HTTP equivalent page. That means that if your site’s internal navigation references the ...

As we learn more about the Google HTTPS algorithm I want to keep you posted. Three new tidbits came out on the topic through yesterday's Google webmaster hangout with Google's John Mueller on Google+.

Google is working on adding an HTTPS-Only Mode to the Chrome web browser to protect users' web traffic from eavesdropping by upgrading all connections to HTTPS. This new feature is now being tested in ...

Citing the need to protect users from government cyber-spying, Google has tightened Gmail’s encryption screws by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. Google first gave people the option of ...