You may have received calls or emails from some of your website visitors that your site is showing a Not Secure banner or Insecure Connection This is as a result of initiatives from the browser community to force all sites to use the secure, encrypted communication protocol. The latest one has been spearheaded by Google’s Chrome revision 68. Chrome 68, released in July, marks all sites without SSL as Not Secure. This underlines a very simple fact Google is trying to communicate: Sites served via HTTP are insecure and thus cannot be trusted.
This could also be as a result of your site using an Invalid SSL certificate. Invalid SSLs are either those expired or self-signed ones.
So, what are you to do if your site shows this? It’s simple, install a valid SSL certificate for your website. This is where Ask SSL comes in. Ask SSL provides SSL certificates that are inexpensive, easy to install and 24/7 support to help you with SSL issues. The moment you purchase an SSL certificate, we will provide guides on how to install SSL certificates.
Additionally, besides securing your website, SSL certificate provides a tonne of other benefits:
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Boost your visitors confidence and trust. This can be maximised with the EV certificate
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Faster web speed with the latest web technologies I.e HTTP/2
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Boost SEO
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Increases conversion rate in the site
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protect information with encrypted transmissions
