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Doug here's a 50-page demo of your site fully mapped w/ high-res screenshots: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/0ab02eb852f0f5267291ce5...

*one thing we noticed is that your site does have an https certificate! I'd deeply consider fixing that since it will harm your google rankings[1].

[1]https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-you...




Your supporting link directly contradicts your claim.

> He found that HTTPS is moderately correlated with higher search rankings on the search engine giant’s first page.


Google says it themselves : "https as a ranking signal" https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-s...


Yes, it's a positive ranking signal. They're definitely not penalizing sites for having certificates.


Seems likely it's a typo and he accidentally omitted the word "not"


It was just a typo, he accidentally omitted "not"




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