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Re:Ask HN: What SSL Cert Provider Do You Use? by krf on Friday November 19, 2010 @01:03AM (#1920578)
Can you back your assertion up with some evidence ?

"Seals" used to be quite popular some years ago (e.g. TrustE seal and the BBB Seal), but they seem to get less press these days, so I wonder how important they are for conversions.

Has Aunt Millie really heard of Verisign ? May actually have heard of GoDaddy though due to the advertising.

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Re:Ask HN: What SSL Cert Provider Do You Use? by haploid on Friday November 19, 2010 @11:24AM (#1921789)
Not linkable evidence, no, although Verisign has their own collection of user stories claiming huge conversion increases in their marketing literature.

We have done A/B testing on Verisign seals vs no seals vs generic "Secure Site" seals we created. There is a statistically significant increase in conversions with the Verisign seal vs the other two options.

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