SSL Certificate Installed

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0100
Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines

It took a while --{ busy with other projects, sorry }-- but finally freesitemapgenerator.com has moved to https. Your bits and bytes will now be encrypted between your browser and our servers. The free SSL server test at SSL Labs checked the installation and gave our web servers an "A"! All traffic to http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com/ is now redirected to https://freesitemapgenerator.com/. This should be very transparent to the Free Sitemap Generator users but if you see strange behavior please let us know.

As we promised earlier this year, we will keep track of the Google SERPs, Indexed Pages and all other kind of metrics. We expect to see a little rise in the SERPs because Google announced to reward https websites. You, as a fellow webmaster, will probably be interested in the results. We will give the internets a couple of weeks to settle and then we will compare data and report back to you. With the Let's Encrypt program being released later this year it will be easier than ever to migrate to https.

The magic Apache configuration I used to enable this redirect:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) https://freesitemapgenerator.com$1 [R=301]