First of all let's understand, what? Really an SSL certificates is and what are the advantages of it, to have it in our online platforms like on our blog site or website. And then we will continue on the other parts of it.
What is SSL Certificates?
SSL Certificates are small information files that digitally attach a cryptographic key to an association's information. When it installed on a web server, it activates the security measures in your site and the HTTPS protocol allows secure connections from a web server to a browser that the visitor of the site is trying to navigate through in your site. Your blog or site needs any SSL certificate if you're asking for any personal information. And it's common among the sites that the users have to hand over sensitive information such as credit card information, home addresses, and financial data while the user has to perform a task on the site.
There are mainly three authentication types of SSL certificate; extended validation, organization validation, and domain validation. Even if you haven't noticed it before, but your blog or site for visitors have this security for sure if you see on your internet browser address you will found HTTPS (SSL certificate active) otherwise usually it is simple HTTP which is without any security. Google has also announced recently that SSL is a ranking signal, means to be found in search result in Google SSL is very important for a blog or site, not having SSL in your site will be harder to be found and also it will have an impact on your site traffic and revenue.
Do we have to pay for SSL certificates?
Some time it depends if we have to pay for SSL certificate or if not, to equip a website with these certificates, one must pay for it. A paid certificate is issued and signed by a trustworthy certificate authority. As far as the level of encryption is concerned, a free SSL certificate provides the same level of encryption as a paid one. And also some time it depends with which company you are publishing your website.
For Example:
Wix offers a free SSL certificate as long as you're their customer. If you use Wix to build your websites, implementing SSL is very simple. You can activate SSL on you Wix website on five clicks, which are bellow you can see.
1. Go to Settings in your site's dashboard.
2. Scroll down to HTTPS (at the bottom of the page).
3. Click Manage.
4. Click Turn on HTTPS
5. Click Continue.
So now let's see some important steps through which you can assure the security of your website for your business well being and for your visitors of your website.
1. Use of SSL Certificates
2. Importance of Site Seals
3. Website Error Messages
4. Domain Attack
1. Use of SSL Certificates
As we discussed in the above paragraphs, don't know if you remember it. It is that when ever you start using the SSL Certificates in your blog or website, the URL to your website or blog will start begging with “HTTPS” rather than the normal “HTTP”. This is what your website or blog want to show is that your website is now safe and well protected for any kind of internet online attack.
These Certificates helps to protect all the information that’s going to be process in our visitor's web browser until it reaches to our website’s server. And also there is an Extended Validation SSL certificate, which is the highest level of security, the extensive, and safest. In this option, the companies request the certificate which has to go through an extensive identification process, means more security measures to pass while your visitors do a transactions or any other sort of important activities which include important information.
2. Importance of Site Seals
A site seal is a visual indicator that lets your visitors know that your organization values online security and privacy. The SSL.com Smart Seal is a complementary service that establishes trust by declaring your site's use of SSL.com certificates and it comes free with every SSL.com certificate installed.
SSL secure site seal can be applied on the entire website, blog or any web page like home pages, checkout pages, log-in, or any other pages that needs assurance from visitors. A secure site seal is a clickable seal that reveals current time and date and certificate confirmation information. For more information or for using it on your website or blog you can visit if you want https://www.globalsign.com.
3. Website Error Message
From time to time when we try to visit a site or a blog page, you will meet with an HTTP error message. It's a message from the web server that something is not working properly. In some cases it could be a mistake that you made doing maybe some changes in your browser settings before to access the site, but often, it's the website's fault. Each type of error messages has an HTTP error code which is dedicated to it.
For i.e.; if you try to access a webpage which doesn't exist anymore, you will get an error message 404 error, And we are sure you may have seen it some where before. Error messages some times may also help with debugging problems with the error code, but of course it will show a negative image to your site. And it is very important that we make sure our website is free of the any such kind of error messages.
4. Domain Attack
Domain names are hacked with the intention to steal customer's information and to challenge the competitor websites. There is a lot of money to be made by extorting money from domain owners and website users. Luckily, there are ways to prevent this type of security threats by putting some strong security measures on place, like firewalls security layers or other available security options. And also it depends to the kinds of domain attack, we are facing. Because the domain attackers use different methods when the attack they don't use the same method again and gain some time.
Final Ending:
Through this blog, we tried to explain to you the advantages of the SSL certificates for your website or blog page. You have seen through the blog that the SSL certificate is very important for a website or a blog page if you have it on your page it is a good thing to have it. And also it is a tool to build the trust between your business and your visitors of the site.
And we hope that you have learned some interesting staff through this blog, where then you can apply it practically on your website or blog page. To increase the trust of your clients on your business by securing their valuable information's on your online platforms.
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