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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by bastawhiz on Thursday February 08, 2018 @08:43PM (#16337241)
Is there evidence that this is indeed the case? I've seen much FUD but no actual data that shows that a properly updated site (301 redirects, HSTS, robots.txt) is penalized.
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Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” by SquareWheel on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:57AM (#16338650)
It's FUD. Google has already confirmed that switching to HTTPS will not hurt your site.

>Do I lose "link juice" from the redirects?

>No, for 301 or 302 redirects from HTTP to HTTPS no PageRank is lost.

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/PY1xCWbeDVC

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