Is SSL essential for ranking a website in the Top 10?

[CAPITAO CONFUSAO]

I'm trying to create some blogs and monetize them with ads. I realized that SSL is a very important factor, but at the moment I have no money and no time for a job (full time college). I know there are free ways to get SSL, but I came across the following problem: The free servers I found do not allow Free SSL, and the sites that offer free SSL do not allow Wordpress.

I found an alternative that allows both, but from time to time my website simply ¨Some ¨ and I have to start over from scratch. I intend to pay for a server, I know that the free hosting isn't worth, but I just don't have the money now. I'm collecting $ through CPI, but the minimum to withdraw is $ 50 and I'm stuck at $ 32 for more than a week.

 

[TravelingPizza]

Keep grinding buddy, yoy can find a server and a domain for $50.

Do you have a plan once you get that? What kind of website will you be building? In what niche? How will you do your keyword research? What about the content? The off-site linkbuilding/outreach?

 

[CAPITAO CONFUSAO]

Keep grinding buddy, yoy can find a server and a domain for $50.

Do you have a plan once you get that? What kind of website will you be building? In what niche? How will you do your keyword research? What about the content? The off-site linkbuilding/outreach?

Hey, thank you for the reply.
I will start a blog about logistics... Already found some Keywords and i saved then on a .csv file ( I found a MOZ account, and i still get 2 Free Days on it, if you have some tips to give me).

My blog is already on and got 3 posts ( i did all of it), but zero traffic... I just want a SSL to take it seriously and that's why im gridding money on CPI.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

Hey, thank you for the reply.
I will start a blog about logistics... Already found some Keywords and i saved then on a .csv file ( I found a MOZ account, and i still get 2 Free Days on it, if you have some tips to give me).

My blog is already on and got 3 posts ( i did all of it), but zero traffic... I just want a SSL to take it seriously and that's why im gridding money on CPI.

Add it to cloudflare, free SSL.

 

[CAPITAO CONFUSAO]

Add it to cloudflare, free SSL.

Already did, but my hosting doesn't accept that. I found just one Free Hosting + WP + CloudFlare SSL, but my blog vanished a lot when a try to do some updates (very weird, i simply was redirected to install WP again and to start from zero)

 

[TravelingPizza]

Hey, thank you for the reply.
I will start a blog about logistics... Already found some Keywords and i saved then on a .csv file ( I found a MOZ account, and i still get 2 Free Days on it, if you have some tips to give me).

My blog is already on and got 3 posts ( i did all of it), but zero traffic... I just want a SSL to take it seriously and that's why im gridding money on CPI.

Props to you for taking action!

About keyword research, google keyword planner is free and has the most accurate data (obviously). I suggest you play around with it and get used to how it works.

As for your website not receiving traffic yet, don't worry about it, SEO is a long-term game, 3 posts will get you nowhere in terms of organic traffic. Your first goal should be to pump out content and reach 20k words in total, that's normally where you should see the first visitors coming from serps

 

[CAPITAO CONFUSAO]

Props to you for taking action!

About keyword research, google keyword planner is free and has the most accurate data (obviously). I suggest you play around with it and get used to how it works.

As for your website not receiving traffic yet, don't worry about it, SEO is a long-term game, 3 posts will get you nowhere in terms of organic traffic. Your first goal should be to pump out content and reach 20k words in total, that's normally where you should see the first visitors coming from serps

Did not know about this 20k words thing. Thank you buddy!
I will start to put more content now.

 

[[Grizzly]]

Yes you need SSL. But you can get it for free.

Edit: Oh, you have free hosting. That will be terrible. Get the best cPanel or Direct Admin hosting you can afford and then get the free SSL.

 

[Mr. EliteSeo]

SSL certificate is one of the Important factor in google ranking. But getting into top 10 takes more than just SSL.

 

[Mr Positive]

I would say yes because site users won’t like to see not secured while browsing and that’ll lead to high bounce and low rankings

 

[MisterXYZ]

More than site users, SSL is forced by Google.

I think you need to configure cloudflare properly. It should work fine.

Make your host to cloudflare connection non-ssl.

 

[Satal]

@babelonia just to check, are you using a subdomain of the free hosting? For example mysite.godaddy.com?
If you're using your own domain name then I believe you should be able to use CloudFlare but if you're using a subdomain then it's almost certainly not an option.

 

[CAPITAO CONFUSAO]

@babelonia just to check, are you using a subdomain of the free hosting? For example mysite.godaddy.com?
If you're using your own domain name then I believe you should be able to use CloudFlare but if you're using a subdomain then it's almost certainly not an option.

Hey!
Not a subdomain... Just mydomainname.com

Im already using the 2 cloudflare DNS, the site is working, but still no SLL... i think my hoster just dont acept it.