Want Your Blog Move From HTTP To HTTPS ? Follow This Guide
Google expects your website to move from HTTP to HTTPS as soon as possible as it is important right now.
Google will use chrome to start warning those websites which are not yet moved to HTTPS from this month July 2018 onwards.
From buyers or website visitors perspective, your website visitors feel safe and secure to use your site only if is encrypted with HTTPS.
Let us see in detail how to move from HTTP to HTTPS in today’s blog post.
Steps To Follow To Move From HTTP To HTTPS
According to Google, Please find the below statistics.
- Over 68% of Chrome traffic on both Android and Windows is now protected
- Over 78% of Chrome traffic on both Chrome OS and Mac is now protected
- 81 of the top 100 sites on the web use HTTPS by default
Most of the sites already moved to SSL currently as per Google’s request. Now its time for you to act now if you haven’t moved to HTTPS yet.
You will see a benefit as well regarding search engine optimization as per Google if you move to HTTPS.
If your business users find your site URL with HTTP, obviously they won’t find it secure to pay you money for the services you are offering.
Please don’t be hesitant anymore to move from HTTP to HTTPS. If you still have any queries please ask your questions via the comment section.
Please move from HTTP to HTTPS today without any more delay as its very high time.
Buy an SSL Certificate
Buy an SSL certificate from your web hosting provider and ask them to get it installed for you.
Also please be informed there are some web hosting providers like Bluehost, HostGator and SiteGround offering Free SSL.
If your web hosting provider is one of them then claim your free SSL from them as soon as possible.
In case if your hosting provider won’t provide you SSL then I suggest you to buy it from Godaddy.
Install SSL Plugin
Download and Upload Really Simple SSL plugin in your WordPress admin dashboard under the Plugins section.
Install the plugin from your admin dashboard.
Activate SSL Plugin
Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin dashboard.
After activation, this plugin will automatically detect SSL which your hosting provider installed(after you purchased from them), and will enable your WordPress site to use HTTPS instantly.
Validate HTTPS
After buying & installing SSL certificate then Activate SSL plugin and next you are good to validate whether your URL did with the move from HTTP to HTTPS as of now.
For example, here is ShoutTips SSL status from the address bar in Chrome browser.
Suggest you check your website URL in different browsers to confirm all looks good because users used to access your site from any browser.
So it’s better to confirm whether all browsers were able to recognize the SSL you have installed for your domain.
Final Words
Hope you liked this article about how to move from HTTP to HTTPS.
Implement the steps specified above and call out via the comment section if you need any further help.
If you would like to read more articles related to WordPress then you can read here.
Will meet you in another post. Take care.
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