Do you have an SSL Cert on your site?
Google has been urging users to move to HTTPS encrypted sites for some time. Starting in October, if your site isn’t encrypted with an SSL cert, Google will start marking pages that collect password information or credit card information as “Not Secure” in the web browser. This will affect your Google ranking as well as your sales conversions from your site. Customers want to be sure that their information is secure and if that is in question they will buy from someone else that has taken the steps needed to stay compliant.
If you’re not using HTTPS and have a contact form, of any kind on your website, it’s likely that you are in this group. Google wants to provide a secure surfing environment for internet users and the important thing that Google is looking for is the Green HTTPS in the browser window (see below):
What you should do to make sure you are Google compliant
Contact us or your host company to make sure that you have a valid SSL cert and that your url begins with HTTPS. We have extensive hosting experience and installing SSL Certificates is nothing new to us!
