IMPORTANT GOOGLE NOTICE: In 2016, search providers such as Google and makers of Web browsers such as Mozilla announced their desire to make the Web more secure by literally beginning to “force” Website owners to move their sites to secure HTTP protocols that will encrypt and protect visitor traffic on sites of any type. What this means is that whether your site is for personal or business use, major browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and others will soon start to display security indicators and warnings on sites that are not protected by an SSL Certificate. In fact, as of January 2017 (with Chrome 56), Google began marking “HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure” (See Google’s notice).

These indicators will not only negatively impact the image and reputation of your Website, they will also warn users that your site is insecure and, therefore, dangerous to visit. After such sweeping changes are implemented, nothing prevents Google, at some point in the future, to also to begin to indicate, in various search results, which sites are secured via an SSL certificate and which sites are not. The lack of protection on your site may, in turn, and perhaps ultimately, also end up impacting your site’s ranking in Google’s search results if Google so decides down the road.

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