Great post. Currently, SSL is indeed very important factor; Google chrome shows “not secure” on non-SSL websites. Luckily, my hosting company SiteGround offered an easy solution with Let’s Encrypt.

Thanks for sharing!

Yet it’s interesting how many sites still aren’t “secure.” While reading the news online this morning, I noticed that both BBC.com and Univision.com still haven’t made the change.

Mark is correct. You do need to tell Google that you switched to https.

I hope it goes smoothly, Marcie!

I don’t know those plugins, but often there is a little bit of redirecting that is required to ensure http goes to https. There are many walkthroughs on the web showing how to do that depending on what kind of server you have.

Also, you need to remember to tell Google Search Console which version of your site you want to use. There is a setting in GSC that enables you to select https rather than http.

You’re right to be concerned to ensure the http versions are redirected to https otherwise links won’t work and the ‘link juice’ Google assigns will be lost as well.

Cheers.

Again, I’m not an expert, but that’s been my experience so far.