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In this video you're going to learn how to activate your free SSL certificate in blue host.

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It's very simple to do.

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All we need to do is really click this button to enable it.

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But before we go ahead and do that I do want to explain what is an SSL certificate and what is really

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the benefit of it and how much would it cost you if you weren't getting it for free.

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So really an SSL certificate is very simple it makes your site more secure and you probably most commonly

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see it here by having this little t t p s and in the browser seeing here that the site is secure.

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So obviously blue hosts themselves have this SSL cert.

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It's showing in my browser as a visitor to this site that this is secure.

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Now let's compare this to my example site here.

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You can see I do not have this secure symbol or the page DTP apps and if I click in I actually look

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at the information here it says my connection to this site.

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Me as a visitor now it's not secure and I shouldn't enter in any sensitive information.

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For example passwords credit cards because it can be stolen by attackers.

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So really there's a lot of technical stuff about waterin SL SSL certificate actually does.

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But as a web site owner really the important stuff is is it really helps keep data secure.

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It increases your Google rankings it builds and enhances consumer trust and it improved things.

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Conversion rates because people can see OK this site is secure.

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I won't fear about my information being stolen by hackers.

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Now this is a business site that I set up here so it's not like people are entering credit card details

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or passwords.

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But still it just gives me that extra sense of security just by having this little symbol in the browser.

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So obviously there are clear benefits to it here.

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It can help you in these search rankings even though people are not putting in information on my site.

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And it just builds consumer trust and increases those conversion rates.

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Now how much would this cost you if you weren't getting it for free with blue hosts.

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Well we'll look at Go Daddy here and you can see that for the first year it might cost you 55 56 dollars

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and then $70 after that.

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So getting it free is pretty cool.

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And again this is just one of the advantages of its signing up.

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And two blue hosts.

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So as we can see here my site now does not have the certificates.

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I'm just going to come into blue you come into home.

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You can come into my sites you can come in to manage sites and then to get to that little button you

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can come to security.

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And then we can just click Enable there.

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So now I can see that it's in progress.

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And if I click in to see the information it says we're setting up your SSL right now.

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It normally takes about an hour.

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And if it takes more than four hours they will e-mail me asking for more information.

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So I'm going to wait about an hour wait for this to show up on my side.

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OK so back to my site now.

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After a little bit of a wait and now I can see that the SSL cert has been activated.

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I know that because here in the address bar its name showing the secure symbol and I can also see the

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hates to deep space in green which looks fantastic.

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So if you have any problems with this process I'd recommend you really use the live chat function on

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blue hose.

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Their support is really incredible.

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So if anything doesn't happen or doesn't show up after that time period just get in touch with them.

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So once again the benefits of getting an cells cert are that it keeps data secure between your servers

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and your credit card information passwords can be hacked.

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It also helps increase your Google rankings because you have that extra protection for visitors.

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It builds consumer trust because it just looks great.

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Then they know they're protected and it'll help improve conversion rates because they feel more confident

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about signing up to emails or making purchases on your site because they know it's safe.

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So the steps once again to activate your free SSL cert on blue hosts are to come into my site's security

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and just click that button to get your free SSL cert activated.