On Oct 11, 2011, at 19:40 , Matt Aimonetti wrote: > I would also not force SSL for any public pages for SEO reasons.
Please elaborate. Why would encrypting the traffic between your server and Google (or whoever) affect your SEO rank? It's not like it would prevent anyone seeing the same page at the same URL. I wouldn't be surprised to see google *favor* pages with signed site certificates. Here: http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/SSL-https-Protocol-for-SEO-Tips/ is a discussion appearing to indicate that if properly implemented, SSL will not adversely affect SEO. For my part, I think it is a mistake that the entire internet isn't encrypted from the get-go. I don't use it routinely, but anything even trivially secure I just do via SSL as a matter of course. This is the first suggestion I've heard that this could adversely affect SEO. -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
