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Apr 16, 2017 | 12:56 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by elCheapoDeluxe

There is a whole bunch of wrong in this. Not only does Google index HTTPS, Google gives a ranking boost to HTTPS sites. As for my screen showing HTTPS but not being secured I just don't think you understand what we're talking about. There is no relationship between https and requiring login. Those are two discreet things. We are talking transport here, and having a secure transport before authentication - not necessarially requiring authentication. If you DO process authentication you should have a secure transport, though, to protect user credentials.

Regarding the crawling, here is some info from the webmasters Google blog regarding HTTPS:

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...y-default.html

Emphasis mine.

I'd also like to add that I had no idea FT even supported HTTPS until very recently, and it should definitely be, at the very least, the default option.

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