Yes! Blogger Users, you read it right. Blogger released free SSL (https) Certificate for Custom Domains. So from now, you can easily get free SSL certificate directly from Blogger. Previously, Blogger only supports SSL for Blogspot sub-domains and if we want to use secure https (SSL) for our blogger custom domain then we must have to purchase it from SSL providers but from now Google's Blogger itself providing SSL certificate for custom domains too. BigRock offers many coupons for cheap SSL certificates, you can also use GoDaddy. What you are waiting for? Let's check out its benefits and how you can enable it and make your Blogger blog more secure.
Check: How to Setup Freenom Domains (.tk, .ml, .cf, .ga, .gq) as Blogger Custom Domain?
What is SSL Certificate?
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer which ensures the security of a website with a user. We usually do the online transactions, fill our personal information in desired forms so we do to send our information to the web servers. So we need a secure connection in order to protect our data and here the SSL certificate matters. By SSL certificate, HTTPS establishes an encrypted connection between a web server and a user so any third person can't access the particular information.
Moreover, most of the sites have a unique SSL Certificate this helps in identifying a secure connection. Any site that is pretending to have a secure SSL, HTTPS connection, and its certificate is not verified or does not match then your browser will show such warning message.
Why Moving To HTTPS is Recommended?
You must know that Google gives a slight boost to the rank of sites which are HTTPS enabled. But surely Google will increase the effect of this “boost” and of course, even a slight boost in SERP is essential to overcome our competitors.
Please Keep Following Points in mind before enabling SSL (HTTPS) :
- Your traffic will be down for few days until Google correctly indexes all your URLs with HTTPS.
- During this all process, if you made any mistake, then your blog can go down. So make these changes on such time when no or very few people are watching your blog.
Check: How to Add/Install Google Analytics to Blogger to check real-time count on your blog. - You’ll have to remove all the widgets that are hosted/attached to non-SSL hosts as they won't work. I will surely provide the details of all the necessary changes in future posts.
How to Enable FREE HTTPS SSL Certificate for Blogger Custom Domain?
Roughly, a basic SSL certificate costs about $10/year but Blogger now offers a free SSL to its all Blogger users. No matters if you blog is hosted on Blogspot subdomain or a custom domain.
Note: This feature is currently in testing mode (beta version) and soon will be live at Blogger.com Dashboard but you can check and enable it through Blogger in Draft.
Note: This feature is currently in testing mode (beta version) and soon will be live at Blogger.com Dashboard but you can check and enable it through Blogger in Draft.
- Sign in to Blogger in Draft - (https://draft.blogger.com)
- Now, Select a blog on which you would like to enable HTTPS.
- Go to Settings > Basic > HTTPS Settings.
- In HTTPS Availability, select YES.
It might take some time to enable HTTPS (SSL) on your blog. So wait for few minutes and let another HTTPS redirect option be ready for enabling.
- HTTPS redirect will help you in getting your HTTP traffic redirect to your new secured HTTPS server, so don't forget to wait sometime and enable it.
Congrats! Now your blog has a unique SSL certificate which will surely enhance your SERP and provide an extra layer of security to your blog. Now check your blog with https:// and enjoy free SSL support from blogger dancing on your blogger custom domain enabled blog.
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53 comments:
Is it permanent?
@fathurhoho
Yes! It is permanent :)
I don't see the HTTPS redirect option inside my blog. where are you located that you find it?
@V. H. Testing
You have to visit Draft.Blogger.com instead of Blogger.com
@Hammad Ansari Thanks man this worked fine for my blog.. great
Great Blog!
My site going to error after set to https,
"This site can’t be reached"
This article was really helpful...Thanks
@Rendra Budi Hutama
It will takes sometime to install SSL on your blogger blog's server.
So just wait around 10-20 minutes and you're ready to go :)
Hi Hammad,
Thanks for this awesome guide man.
@MJ Haider
Buddy! Stay Connected with BBeginner. More awesome guides are on the way :)
Thank you. Many people have been posting tutorials without mentioning that you need to go to draft.blogger instead of the regular page.
I don't suppose you know how to keep blogger dynamic from eating HTML when you change from Compose to HTML modes do you? Because that would be a game changer :)
This link works : https://www.arabes1.com
But this does not work : https://arabes1.com/
Is there a solution to this problem
Hey Hammad... greetings from Ireland, this works perfectly... thanks very much :-)
After you changed the https availability wait for some times it will then allow you to change the https redirect. After that still you have to wait for 5 to 10 minutes for google to process your blogger costom domain. My website: https://www.news-topic.in/ works fine after that
@Jack Gerdes
Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Settings > Basic
and Under Blog Address Click on Edit.
Now Tick Redirect arabes1.com to www.arabes.com
Wait for sometimes and You're Done.
Stay Connected :)
Hi,
Tried draft.blogger but in my blog I can't select a yes option with the https (step 4)? Any ideas what to do now?
I'm still working on the blog so it's not public yet but that should not make a difference I understand?
@AAHH
Why you need a SSL if your blog is not public?
Buddy! You need to make your blog public in order to use SSL. Cheers!
Stay Connected.
Huhu..why not working in my blog ridlowrites.com
Iam wait 20 min https redirects not active..give me solutions
@Ridlo Muhammad
Usually it takes around 5-10 minutes but Sometimes it takes longer than expected.
I request you to wait few hours and it will works fine :)
Thanks for this article!!
I've followed all the steps.
I have activate "HTTPS Availability" since 3 days, and the "HTTPS Redirect" option is not activated yet today.
Anyone have the same problem like me???
Hello Bro!
Very great article in the web. But when i enabled HTTPS its showing this message please see this - http://prntscr.com/iir1vw and note i'm using CloudFlare with Blogger. Please give me your opinion about this issue!
Thanks.
@Sanjay Singh Rawat
Yes, this will happens. As I stated above, it takes some time for the HTTPS redirect tab to get activated. Try it after few hours.
Stay Connected :)
Yes Bro!
Site working on SSL. But my blog's "Home Page Posts" requests not redirect to HTTPS any solution?
@Sanjay Singh Rawat
Share your blog's URL through contact us page so that we can check and help in a better way.
Contact Us
brother i still can find solution to this problem
This link works : https://www.arabes1.com
But this does not work : https://arabes1.com/
@didou rahim
Add a CNAME record in your domain's DNS settings.
@ and point it to www
Then click redirect arabes1.com to www.arabes1.com in your blogger's blog settings tab.
@Hammad Ansari
Thanks my friend for trying to help me
All the settings that You explained to me are activated
But the problem remains
@didou rahim
Tell me if you're using Cloudflare. As this will not work when you use it.
@Hammad Ansari
no brother
I use the same method
From the blogger platform
This problem I found that many suffer from it and not just me
When type arabes1.com it works normally
When type www.arabes1.com it works normally
When type http://www.arabes1.com it works normally
When type http://arabes1.com it works normally
But this link https://arabes1.com does not work
@didou rahim
Yes! I totally understood your concern.
I kindly request you to get in touch with your domain provider's customer care.
They will look into this issue.
tnx sir .it works. do i need to put the new url to google search console to be index?
Same here
Hello, Hammad!
How're you doing?
I just used your guide and it was easy and worked too. Still, there's something that is not working well.
When I open my blogger blog, it redirects me to the homepage (with https and in green color), but when it completes loading, the green color goes away i.e. the blog goes in the half-safe condition.
Please take a look at the my blog for see it yourself.
My blog: www.jobsdeal.in
Thanks in advance!
Saif
@Sterb Sagar
Yes! You need to submit your blog's HTTPS version to Google Search Console.
@Jobs Deal
This happens due to mixed content i.e. you blog is using both https and http scripts.
I request you to change all http scripts to https one.
You can take help of https://www.whynopadlock.com/ to find the http scripts on your blog.
I just discovered it when I saw the 'bell' notification in the Post tab, telling me HTTPS for custom domains is now available... Google is silent about this update. I feel very glad and happy they're offering it for free and I no longer need to buy SSL certificate.
Thank you so much. I didn't know about this option because it showed unavailable. When I went to draft.blogger.com it worked! Took less than 5 min and now I have a ssl enabled site. Hope there's nothing else I have to do besides enabling ssl and redirects. Thanks again! :-)
Very Nice post about SSL Certificates.Thanks for sharing With Us.
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Successfully converted my blog from http:// to https:// using the blogger new features for custom domains. Thanks admin for the useful post, but there is more task we need to perform after migrating our blog to secure SSL, i.e. Changing Google Analytics settings, Adding new property in Search Console, etc.
I have successfully done mine. Thanks admin
@Hammad Ansari
Google never host the domain in nacked form. So basically domain with WWW is a sub-domain. And when you turned on the HTTPS Availability, Google installs an SSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, to the server for your sub-domain. So in simple words, you have the SSL certificate for the sub-domain not for the main domain. So whenever you visit your site (without www) with https, you will get an error.
Humaira Salah Uddin
www.gadgets-insight.com
Hello , Free Google SSL shows a expiration date ? So is it permemant ?
My traffis is down on my site! because i get free SSL(https)?
https://www.descarcaregratis.xyz/
So after adding https, also I have to change https in my search console web property url. Please tell me soon
Thank you for this post.Thank you for sharing your expertise. This post is very helpful. It's informative too!
This is a very nice post and i really learned a lot from it.
Please i have a question, Do i have to submit another site map after my domain has changed to https?
Huge Help!!
Thanks for the update. It helped me a lot for my AP DSC 2018 Notification Online application form
i apply SSL for my blogspot blog https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com but now i am facing below error. i replaced all http:// into https:// but still errors appeared.
"Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2015/02/sohbat-sex-ka-islamic-tarika.html' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-htG7vy9vIAA/Tp0KrMUdoWI/AAAAAAAABAU/e7XkFtErqsU/s72-c/grey.gif'. This content should also be served over HTTPS."
Can You Please help me to fix this error.
thanks in advance.
Great I'll try this. I have send a question in Facebook. Hope you check them out.
yeay, thanks it works only a few minutes. I just needed to refresh twice. Thanks for this article
Change the protocol of link of image to https.
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