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While Google does have manual penalties, I do not believe that is what is going on here. There are a few problems with the site, for example, it redirected me

While Google does have manual penalties, I do not believe that is what is going on here. There are a few problems with the site, for example, it redirected me to use HTTP instead of using HTTPS: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-r...

kwhitefoot 3y ago
Why is that a problem?
- JHorse 3y ago
  Apart from just generally being insecure, I believe google penalizes what it classes as misconfiguration/bad practices on the server side
- callalex 3y ago
  This article explains in an approachable way. See especially the section on https “myth-conceptions” about why you need to use it even on webpages that don’t handle sensitive data. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/why-use-https/ https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/why-use-https/