{"id":8573,"date":"2016-06-22T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T23:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2016-06-22T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T23:19:32","slug":"announcing-ssl-protection-for-all-yola-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/announcing-ssl-protection-for-all-yola-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing SSL protection for all Yola users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web security is more important than ever. With this in mind, The Yola Team is excited to announce our newest feature: SSL Protection for all users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is SSL protection and why does it matter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SSL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/ssl\/\" target=\"_blank\">establishes an encrypted link<\/a> between a web server and a browser, ensuring that all data transferred remains private. It allows you to protect site visitors\u2019 data from monitoring and tampering while they browse your website, purchase products and fill out contact forms.<\/p>\n<p>While site security is a huge proponent of SSL, the additional benefits come two-fold:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Customer trust<\/strong>: In having an SSL certificate, the domain name of your business website will display with \u201cHTTPS\u201d rather than \u201cHTTP\u201d as well as a lock icon. This gives your customers peace of mind while browsing your website. It also shows that you value their security, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/do-visitors-see-your-website-as-credible-5-questions-to-ask-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">boosting your credibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-22-at-2.15.51-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-22 at 2.15.51 PM\" width=\"315\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Search engine ranking: <\/strong>The Yola Team isn\u2019t the only one aiming for a secure web. <a href=\"https:\/\/webmasters.googleblog.com\/2014\/08\/https-as-ranking-signal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google released an algorithm<\/a> which gives secure sites an additional boost in search engine rankings.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How do I add SSL protection to my website?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We find site security so important, we\u2019ve enabled them for <em>all<\/em> of our users with Yola domains and sub-domains. And we\u2019ve made activation simple:<\/p>\n<p>Within Yola Sitebuilder, navigate to Settings &gt; Publishing. From there, click the switch to \u201cEnable SSL.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8577\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8577\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-22-at-2.47.25-PM.png\" alt=\"*Note, users with sub-domains can choose to Enable SSL or \u201cInclude www Prefix.\u201d Users with a custom domain name have no restrictions.\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">*Note, users with sub-domains can choose to Enable SSL or \u201cInclude www Prefix.\u201d Users with a custom domain name have no restrictions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And with one click, your site is secure.<\/p>\n<p>Put your customers\u2019 minds at ease and add SSL protection to your business website today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web security is more important than ever. With this in mind, The Yola Team is excited to announce our newest feature: SSL Protection for all users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[782,1090,1091,1088,1089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}