Thursday 8 December 2011

SSL Certificate Expiration Reminders by Google

19:53  ,  1 comment

In Google Webmaster Central blog recently an interesting post about "SEO Advice for Hosting companies" was found. What it discusses about is common hosting related issues Google spots, including ways for hosting providers recognize, diagnose, and fix these issues.
  • Blocking of Googlebot crawling
  • Availability issues
  • Invalid SSL certificates
  • Wildcard DNS
  • Misconfigured virtual hosting
  • Content duplication through hosting-specific URLs
  • Soft error pages
  • Content modification and frames
  • Spam and malware
SSL Certificates
Though one interesting point is about Invalid SSL Certificates. For SSL certificates to be valid for your website, they need to match the name of the site. Common problems include expired SSL certificates and servers misconfigured such that all websites on that server use the same certificate. Most web browsers will try warn users in these situations, and Google tries to alert webmasters of this issue by sending a message via Webmaster Tools. The fix for these problems is to make sure to use SSL certificates that are valid for all your website’s domains and subdomains your users will interact with.

1 comments:

  1. SSL Cert News14 March 2012 at 00:09

    Below enlisted are really crucial issue to be having SSL certificate on web site.

    Blocking of Googlebot crawling
    Availability issues
    Invalid SSL certificates
    Wildcard DNS
    Misconfigured virtual hosting
    Content duplication through hosting-specific URLs
    Soft error pages
    Content modification and frames
    Spam and malware

    Thank so much for sharing them. We will surely take look for those issue with SSL certificates



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