During a webmaster video hangout on August 21, John Mueller of Google strongly recommended that those who are migrating from HTTP to HTTPs do so with 301 redirects on a per-URL basis. According to Mueller, you shouldn't use other types of redirects. 301 redirects are what you should be sticking with for these migrations. According to Mueller, [...]
Not surprisingly, Google's popular browser, Chrome, has started marking HTTP sites as not secure, beginning July 24. Chrome is now marking all plain HTTP sites as "not secure." Webmasters and publishers were given publishers six months’ notice of this upcoming change that went live yesterday. Rather than the small "i" icon for HTTP URLs, Chrome has added a "Not [...]
An announcement was made by Google's Zineb Ait Bahajji that, going forward, Google will try indexing HTTPS pages first before the HTTP equivalent page. Basically, what this means is that if your site's internal navigation references the HTTP URLs, Google will attempt to see if the same pages will work on HTTPS. If they do work, [...]