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If you purchase an SSL certificate for your website or use our free Let's Encrypt certificates, this can bring you advantages if you want to optimise your website for search engines.
You can check this by looking at the top 10 search results that appear under your keywords. If only websites that use https:// are listed there, you can assume that Google favours such websites.
Please note that Google uses over 200 ranking factors. This means that SSL is only a small part of them and is no guarantee that you will get a better ranking.
The biggest advantage is that https:// protected websites increase the trust of visitors or customers. This in turn can have a positive effect on the visibility of your website in search engines.
If you need more information about SEO/search engine optimisation, we recommend that you hire an expert. Please note that as a hosting provider, we are unfortunately unable to answer any enquiries regarding SEO.