{"id":13589,"date":"2018-07-25T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/names.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:58:10","slug":"is-google-chrome-punishing-your-website-for-not-having-an-ssl-yes-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/blog\/is-google-chrome-punishing-your-website-for-not-having-an-ssl-yes-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Chrome punishing your website for not having an SSL? Yes, it is!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/ssl-certificate-matters-business\/\">explained a couple of months back<\/a> that an important change was coming to how Google handles websites without an SSL certificate. Well, that change has now happened. Google Chrome 68 was released on July 24th and is merrily showing your site visitors an unfriendly \u2018not secure\u2019 label next to your domain name if your website doesn\u2019t have an SSL certificate in place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why having an SSL certificate matters to your business\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a website owner, you don\u2019t want anything getting in the way of visitors (in other words \u2018paying customers\u2019) reaching your site do you?<\/p>\n<p>Why, and how, is Google Chrome stopping visitors getting to my website, you ask? Well, the search giant has decided\u00a0if your website doesn\u2019t have an SSL certificate in place, it\u2019s going to show a \u2018not secure\u2019 label in the address bar\u00a0next to your domain name. Previously, Google was only targeting sites without an SSL that collected data, but it\u2019s upped the ante to include ALL websites now.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured Google has good intentions for taking this action \u2013 it wants to ensure its users can only reach secure websites from its search rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, you don\u2019t want the warning being shown to your customers so let\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/ssl\">get an SSL certificate added to your site<\/a>\u00a0without delay. We\u2019ll do the work so it\u2019s very low effort for you.<\/p>\n<p>An SSL from names.co.uk is not expensive. In fact our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/ssl\">Quick SSL<\/a>\u00a0costs less than \u00a35 per month. The SSL certificate will encrypt all data transferred through your website so hackers can\u2019t intercept it. It\u2019ll also mean that you\u2019ll see \u2018https\u2019 in the address bar, rather than \u2018http\u2019 (the \u2018s\u2019 stands for secure).<\/p>\n<p>It makes an awful lot of sense to get an SSL on your site, but, if you need another reason, here it is: there\u2019s been suggestion in discussion groups that your site will be ranked lower by Google if it doesn\u2019t have an SSL. So, a double whammy of reasons to give us a bell and get us to add an SSL certificate to your site!<\/p>\n<p>SSL certificate \u2013 an absolute MUST as of NOW. Don\u2019t hold your business back.<\/p>\n<p>Call us on\u00a00345 363 3632, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/ssl\">make your purchase online<\/a>\u00a0today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We explained a couple of months back that an important change was coming to how Google handles websites without an SSL certificate. Well, that change has now happened. Google Chrome&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/blog\/is-google-chrome-punishing-your-website-for-not-having-an-ssl-yes-it-is\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":13486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namesco-news","category-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Google Chrome punishing your website for not having an SSL? 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