\n industry-leading security, like
\n strong HTTPS encryption by default<\/a>.
\n That means that people using Search, Gmail and Google Drive, for example, automatically have a
\n secure connection to Google.\n<\/p>\n
\n Beyond our own stuff, we’re also working to make the Internet safer more broadly. A big part of \n We want to go even further. At Google I\/O<\/a> \n We’ve also seen more and more webmasters adopting \n For these reasons, over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether \n In the coming weeks, we’ll publish detailed best practices (it’s in our \n If your website is already serving on HTTPS, you can test its security level and configuration \n We hope to see more websites using HTTPS in the future. Let’s all make the web more secure!\n<\/p>\n
\n that is making sure that websites people access from Google are secure. For instance, we have
\n created resources to help webmasters
\n prevent and fix security breaches<\/a>
\n on their sites.\n<\/p>\n
\n a few months ago, we called for
\n “HTTPS everywhere”<\/a> on
\n the web.\n<\/p>\n
\n HTTPS<\/a>
\n (also known as HTTP over
\n TLS<\/a>,
\n or Transport Layer Security), on their website, which is encouraging.\n<\/p>\n
\n sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. We’ve seen
\n positive results, so we’re starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it’s only a very
\n lightweight signal—affecting fewer than 1% of global queries, and carrying less weight than
\n other signals such as
\n high-quality content<\/a>
\n —while we give webmasters time to switch to HTTPS. But over time, we may decide to
\n strengthen it, because we’d like to encourage all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS
\n to keep everyone safe on the web.\n<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-2e1727ea7472.png\")
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\n documentation<\/a> now) to make TLS adoption easier,
\n and to avoid common mistakes. Here are some basic tips to get started:\n<\/p>\n\n
\n Site move article<\/a>
\n for more guidelines on how to change your website’s address\n <\/li>\nnoindex<\/code>
\n robots<\/span> meta<\/code> tag.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n with the
\n Qualys Lab tool<\/a>. If you are
\n concerned about TLS and your site’s performance, have a look at
\n Is TLS fast yet?<\/a>. And of course, if you
\n have any questions or concerns, please you can post in our
\n Webmaster Help Forums<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n