Do You Need An SSL Certificate For Your Website - Important Things To Know! @TenTonOnline

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do you need an ssl certificate for your website

A critically important component for your online business website is something called an SSL certificate. Have you heard of this before? SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer...but we don't really care about that. What we care about is what it can do for us, right?

What SSL does is it encrypts sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, credit card info, and so on, that gets passed between your visitor's web browser and your business website.

When you purchase something on an e-commerce website, for example, you don't want your sensitive information to be publicly available as it's transmitted across the web.

So, this information is encrypted so that only the destination web server, the web server that you're sending the information to that processes the financial transaction, is able to read it.

When a site has a properly-installed SSL certificate (say like Amazon, TenTonOnline.com, or any other site that handles e-commerce transactions or sensitive user data), you'll see a padlock icon and "https" in the browser's address bar. This lets you know that the site is secure.

Without encryption, this information would be readable by each computer across the network, and your otherwise private information would be readable by everyone. So if you're setting up an online business, you'll definitely need an SSL.

Not only does it give your visitor confidence that your website, your payment processor, and your business overall is safe, credible, and reliable, but there's also an SEO component to having an SSL properly installed and configured for your website.

A few years ago, Google began prioritizing search results from sites who had SSL certificates and penalizing those that didn't. Now, actually setting up an SSL certificate might seem technical. The good news is that your web hosting provider will likely be able to handle everything for you.

Some web hosts (like the ones I use and recommend) provide you with an SSL for free, while others charge extra for them as an add-on to your normal hosting.

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