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I suspect this is going to be one of the big milestone days in the history of the Internet.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced that they’re collaborating with Cisco, Akamai, Mozilla and several other organizations to create a non-profit organization who’s purpose is to make SSL free and easy to implement.

Their goal is to create a completely encrypted Web and the net result is that starting next year, SSL will be free.

WordFence has a done a good article on this which is available here.

For some time we have been using the Google Analylitics plugin from WPMUDEV for many of our clients with great success. It does not give the extensive information that you can get from drilling into your GA reports but it does give a great snapshot available in the dashboard every time you open up the WordPress dashboard.

For many clients this is both useful information and a great reminder to think about what is happening with their site more strategically.

As per my previous post about getting initially listed with Google the site that was previously unable to be found now appears in the search engine index.

The whole field of SEO has a huge range of inconsistencies and vagueness, but it is nice when an admittedly extremely simple example produces the outcome we expect.

So the lesson from this is you need other sites linking to you.

I often get asked by friends, family or someone I have just met at party “I’ve made a website but I don’t seem to be listed by Google. How come?”

There is a few more technical things that can be done by us with SEO understanding, but there is a fundamental concept that will help you get listed.

Google crawls the web following links from one page to another from one site to another recording information on each page as it goes link by link.

Now if you have just made your first web site and there is no links from anywhere that Google knows about to your site it will never follow a link to your site and never list you in it’s index.

So what you need is a link from a site that is indexed by Google.

In reality you need lots of links but that’s another story.

To illustrate my point here is a site done by a friend of mine – http://ferretfarmforestry.weebly.com/#/ lets see how long before Google finds it!