{"id":2062,"date":"2014-08-07T11:47:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2016-05-15T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T14:52:19","slug":"ssl-ranking-factor-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/ssl-ranking-factor-balls","title":{"rendered":"SSL is a Ranking Factor, and So Are My Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golf clap Google, you guys really know how to get them SEOs dancing around. Well you&#8217;re not fooling this guy, nor will you fool my loyal subscriber base who has waited 4 months for a post from me. <\/p>\n<p>This morning my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imjacobking\">Twitter feed<\/a> has been like some disgusting game of hot potato with a turd of Google propaganda. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>SSL ALL THE THINGS!!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Henshaw (@RavenJon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RavenJon\/statuses\/497377392751808512\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bro you can say that again!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS\/SSL Sites <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/5fhWiTKxA9\">http:\/\/t.co\/5fhWiTKxA9<\/a> &lt; guys, it&#39;s going to be SO MINOR of a signal<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Shapiro (@fighto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fighto\/statuses\/497351225973952512\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ok now we&#8217;re heating up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Wonder what graph of SSL certificate sales will look like June-Sep for providers<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Gilchrist (@hitreach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hitreach\/statuses\/497340626200182784\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bet your ass it&#8217;s gonna be a gooooddd month Chris. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Test your websites SEOs! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NlmM6fzcMy\">https:\/\/t.co\/NlmM6fzcMy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; victorpan (@victorpan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/victorpan\/statuses\/497370193241575424\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some sort of tool for testing my site so this ranking factor doesn&#8217;t turn into a ranking disaster. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>In progress for my own site as well. RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\">@rustybrick<\/a>: Moved <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Sf4Qv7nAN\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Sf4Qv7nAN<\/a> to go all HTTPS \/ SSL<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barry Adams (@badams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badams\/statuses\/497383775912099840\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nothing better to work on today Barry? I&#8217;ll give you a pass, it&#8217;s been on the to-do list and this finally gave you the kick to get it done. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Should have invested in the SSL company instead of sinking all my money into that lousy Google authorship photo service.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cyrus Shepard (@CyrusShepard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrusShepard\/statuses\/497398584145620992\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It might not be too late Cyrus, see Chris&#8217;s Tweet, he&#8217;s ready to strike while the iron is hot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Do you really think you have no follower overlap with the 9,000 other people who tweeted that SSL link? Is being a parrot your value add?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Howells (@ianhowells) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianhowells\/statuses\/497395689492848640\">August 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Do you really need to see any more tweets? No? Ok point proven. <\/p>\n<p>Now this isn&#8217;t your usual blend, this is the variety that irritates me the most. These dudes are literally running an <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/https-as-ranking-signal.html\">SSL sales sales competition<\/a> and loving it.  <\/p>\n<p>Ey Google, I know your angle with the links bros, you&#8217;re trying to protect your precious search engine, who can hate on that? But this is some crazy shit going on today, so I&#8217;ve taken it upon myself to pull the blinders up for you bros. So here it goes, sure SSL is a ranking factors, but so are my balls, <strong><u>brass balls<\/u><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brass-balls-ssl.jpg\" alt=\"brass balls ssl\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brass-balls-ssl.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brass-balls-ssl-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brass-balls-ssl-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf clap Google, you guys really know how to get them SEOs dancing around. Well you&#8217;re not fooling this guy, nor will you fool my loyal subscriber base who has waited 4 months for a post from me. This morning my Twitter feed has been like some disgusting game of hot potato with a turd&#8230; <span class=\"more-link-span\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/ssl-ranking-factor-balls\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}