Historically, SSL Certificates and SEO were not related, however, in 2014, Google announced that it would begin using SSL as a signal in their search engine ranking algorithm.
Then,
in 2017,
Google went a step further and started marking all websites without SSL as 'Unsecure'. <
/p> This means as well as being a good indicator of a trusted and secure website, SSL also adds to your search engine rank, so if you ranked equally in Google with another website without SSL, then switching to SSL (or ‘HTTP over SSL’) could give you the edge over your competition.