Google now factoring HTTPS support into search ranking

Google just announced it will boost the ranking of sites that use secure and encrypted connections. This is part of Google’s efforts to push “HTTPS everywhere” on the web.

Re: Google now factoring HTTPS support into search ranking

Yes, noticed that was discussing that with someone earlier. Currently it’s a minor signal but that could easily change.

There are issues with it though that I think a lot of porn sites will have to look into, like how to serve videos securely… if you need to do it at all. How do you encrypt RTMP?

Re: Google now factoring HTTPS support into search ranking

I’m quite sure that just having a ssl certificate on your tour, login and join pages is enough.

I can’t see why encrypting rtmp streams would affect google ranking.

Just use https on the domain itself, that should be enough.

Re: Google now factoring HTTPS support into search ranking

[QUOTE=Andrei - Staxus;151928]I’m quite sure that just having a ssl certificate on your tour, login and join pages is enough.

I can’t see why encrypting rtmp streams would affect google ranking.

Just use https on the domain itself, that should be enough.[/QUOTE]

Because if you’re serving up a page with a videos stream on it, or any other external resource form for example a subdomain, they also have to have a SSL. So if a stream is not secure, it will make the page fail… Or that’s my understand after speaking to a programmer. But I’m not 100% sure and would love to know.

Re: Google now factoring HTTPS support into search ranking

That’s correct anything external and the page would fail.
There’s RTMP over TLS/SSL but that’s apparently a resource hog. Adobe developed RTMPE, which wraps the RTMP session in a light weight encryption layer. But that’s said not to totally secure.