Switching to HTTPS: Experiences, benefits, drawbacks

[djbaxter]

What Happened When I Flipped a WordPress Based Site from http to https
by SugarRae Hoffman
January 15, 2016

In mid-July of 2015, I decided to flip the Sugarrae.com site to https using SSL. In the last eighteen+ months, Google has been pushing hard to “make SSL happen.” They even said it might give you a bit of a rankings boost, no doubt knowing that tons of SEOs and business owners would begin flipping their sites hoping to gain an edge.

Switching to SSL is not as simple as grabbing a secure certificate and flipping the switch. And once you do get it active without issue, you need to make sure it’s maintained.

Do I think Sugarrae needs to be secure? No. Did I think there was a ranking boost significant enough to make the switch? No. But I think that Google isn’t backing down from this crusade. Sugarrae is a branded site within its niche with a decent backlink profile. So I figured I’d test what happens when you make the flip....

On Monday, July 13th, 2015 (2 days after the flip) I saw a 16% increase in organic traffic versus the previous Monday. But by the next Monday, organic traffic had returned to normal levels....

It’s now been six months since the flip. It would seem that organic traffic is slightly down since the switch vs. the period prior...

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[systronic]

if you was talking about blogger you will find an action bottom that can change the blogger from http to https automatically,,, but you have to upload a template with https designed if you were in the beginning of blogging.

 

[Pay Per Call Guru]

I changed some of my sites over to HTTPS, and noticed positive SERP changes. Maybe it was just timing, but either way was well worth it.