Google is changing its default Chrome settings to always try an HTTPS-encrypted connection first. Users will see warnings ...

Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will ask for permission by default before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, beginning with Chrome 154 i026.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google today said that it’s now automatically re-routing HTTP web ...

An HSTS redirect can be used to force browsers to visit the HTTPS version of a page. These types of directs can be useful in cases where someone links to an HTTP URL instead of an HTTPS URL. When the ...

Google first announced the secure connections option for Chrome in 2021, which users could opt into to see a warning before ...

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller says you should always try to replace internal links pointing to HTTP URLs with the newer HTTPS versions. This is stated in a Reddit thread asking if it’s worth ...

On a webmaster video hangout yesterday, Google trends analyst John Mueller strongly recommended that people migrating from HTTP to HTTPS do so with 301 redirects on a per-URL basis. He said you should ...

Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji announced that going forward, Google will try to index HTTPS pages first, before the HTTP equivalent page. That means that if your site’s internal navigation references the ...

As you may remember, Google made HTTPS a small ranking signal and many SEOs and webmasters flocked to switch their sites to be fully HTTPS. Heck, we moved this site and I also moved my corporate site ...

The day or so after Google announced there was a ranking benefit from HTTPS (tiny signal they said), I migrated my corporate site over from HTTP to HTTPS. I did so, not because I felt there would be a ...