In a bid to further protect its users from cyber attacks, Google has announced that it will start prioritizing secure HTTPS URLs over regular HTTP ones even if they don’t have any links pointing to them. Typically having lots of relevant links has been among the top ‘techniques’ for sites to rise in Google’s ranking. The company started giving HTTPS pages a bump in its rankings last year, but will now seek to ensure these become the standard for its search engine. HTTP pages will likely start to drop down in Google’s results as the algorithm is adjusted, which may be a headache for companies…
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