{"id":5571,"date":"2018-04-23T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T17:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:09:21","slug":"no-more-excuses-its-time-to-go-secure-with-ssl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/blog\/no-more-excuses-its-time-to-go-secure-with-ssl\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Excuses: It&#8217;s Time to Go Secure with SSL!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<article class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-beige has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-772205c6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-beige--1\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\r\n<header class=\"wp-block-group c-breadcrumbs aligngrid has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-61973aa6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<header class=\"wp-block-group aligngrid is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d68226ec wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\" style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediavine-dev.d1.moderntribe.qa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chevron-left2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-542\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:contain;width:auto;height:20px\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"is-style-small is-style-small--2\"><a href=\"\/blog\/\">Back to Blog<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/header>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity aligngrid\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"\/>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default has-neutral-20-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><div class=\"aligncenter aligncenter wp-block-tribe-terms\"><ul class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__list\"><li class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__term\"><span class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__link t-category\">Go for Teal<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h1 style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">No More Excuses: It&#8217;s Time to Go Secure with SSL!<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9b38c6d9 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><div style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-author-name\">Eric Hochberger<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date has-10-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2018-04-23T12:16:59-05:00\">April 23, 2018<\/time><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">Let&#8217;s cut right to the chase: It&#8217;s time for every Mediavine publisher to go SSL.\n\nThis July, with Chrome Version 68, Google will begin marking non-SSL sites &#8211; or sites beginning with http:\/\/ instead of https:\/\/ &#8211; as &#8220;Not Secure&#8221; at the top of the address bar.\n\nAs of right now, secure sites get a nice green lock logo and the word &#8220;Secure&#8221; in green. It makes users feel good. Non-secure sites merely lack these indicators.\n\nThis summer, that will change as non-secure URLs <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2018\/02\/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html\">will be labeled &#8220;Not Secure&#8221;<\/a> in the address bar &#8230; which certainly won&#8217;t make users feel good.\n\nThe solution? <strong>GO SSL<\/strong>.\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Time is Now for SSL | Go For Teal\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vVC7Rbr9VeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\nFirst, the briefest of overviews: SSL (for Secure Sockets Layer) is a security protocol for establishing encrypted links between a web server and browser. SSL technology ensures that all data transmitted between a web server and browser &#8211; including advertising &#8211; is encrypted.\n\nMediavine has supported SSL ads for years while encouraging publishers to adopt SSL; 81.5% of ads served by Mediavine appear on SSL sites as of April 2018.\n\nNot a bad figure, but it still means close to one in five publishers are about to have &#8220;Not Secure&#8221; warnings scare away users, and that just doesn&#8217;t seem right.\n\nWe pride ourselves on being more than an ad management company; Mediavine wants to ensure its publishers and their users always get the best experience.\n\n<em>That includes SSL<\/em>.\n\nGoing SSL used to be cost prohibitive, but thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/\">Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/a>, it&#8217;s actually free these days.\n\nIt also used to be considered slower, but thanks to improvements like HTTP\/2, which only runs on SSL sites, secure sites are by and large as fast, if not faster than non-secure counterparts.\n\nThere&#8217;s really no longer an excuse. Your hosting company should offer you a free SSL certificate on your site; Blogger even now supports SSL on custom domains.\n\n<strong>So how do you go SSL?<\/strong>\n\nFirst, contact your host to make sure they can help set things up. If they&#8217;re unable to, we&#8217;ll gladly refer you to a hosting partner who can. Just email publishers@mediavine.com.\n\nOnce your site is set up for SSL, be sure you review\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/are-mediavine-ads-ssl-compatible-our-guide-to-going-ssl\/\">our guide to going SSL<\/a>\u00a0and again, please reach out via the email address above if you have any questions.<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-09aec4f2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\r\n<p class=\"is-style-small is-style-small--3\">About the author<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);\" class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div 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