If your website does not have an SSL certificate, then Google will be flagging your website as “unsafe” in 2019. E commerce websites that sell products online have had to have an SSL certificate for a couple of years now, but soon this will be needed on every website to avoid being flagged up by Google as an “unsafe browsing area”.
An SSL certificate is visible in the top left corner of your computer browser as a “green padlock”, and this padlock holds a key that is issued with the SSL certificate, that your company has been validated and checked by an independent SSL provider and that your business details have been checked, including your address and telephone number.
It is not just Google that will be doing this to websites, the Chrome browser has already started marking websites as “unsafe” when visitors try to access a website without a certificate. To learn more about SSL certificates in Poole, call simply digital on 01202 984002.