A couple of weeks ago I posted about the upcoming changes announced by Google, that sites that are not seen as secure (that is, they are accessed with “HTTP” instead of “HTTPS”) will be labeled as insecure. In addition, Google has indicated that security is a ranking factor. That post provided step-by-step instructions for installing SSL (HTTPS) for your site using Cloudflare. Today Cloudflare’s blog(Cloudflare is the site I used in my instructions in that post) points out that the time for Google’s “insecure” labels is now only 25 days away.

Not surprisingly, Google made a lot of headlines with its announcements in 2017and in February of this year that, as of next month (July, 2018) their Chrome web browser would start marking sites “Not Secure”if they used HTTP instead of HTTPS. There are some good reasonsfor this, but that isn’t the purpose of this post. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to get a free HTTPS website? Keep reading!

Today on the Moz.com blog (one of my favorite sources of great information), there is an excellent post entitled, _8 Common Website Mistakes Revealed Via Content Audits._Not only is this an excellent article in its own right, it also provides great takeaways for action. Here’s the TL;DR (and yes, I have broken out a couple of points so I have 10 rather than 8 points): Be sure you think about the purpose of your page/blog post/whatever and relate it to a call to action