Secured Server and SEO?

Hi all,
i want to know that is it helpfull for getting in serps anyhow, if you are building pages on secured server.
i am feeling so, please give me your advice, experience.

I guess you are asking if https:// is treated any different than http:// by the search engines?

There is no advantage ... they are treated them same. If anything they may even be at a disadvantage ... look at how banks are treated in the financial search results.

From a user point of view ... I never remember the "S" when I type in the address, and the pages seem to load slower.

I've looked into this recnetly no differenmce between https for google and yahoo, still creates probs for msn i believe.

We have one bank with 12000 https paghes indexed by google. why they have 12000 https pages i know not, but its not hit there google rankings at all.

Thanks for all your suggetions. but some where i've read that google trust more on secured server pages.

I never seen any evidence that Google trusts secured sited any more than normal sites. Certainly doesn't appear to trust any of ours any more ;)

Hi

What are Secured Server Pages

Secure server pages are run on port 443 (standard HTTP is port 80) and have a https:// prefix instead of http://. HTTPS is used when you do a transaction online or collect personal information. You also need an SSL certificate.

I remember seeing last year, when the G box was a really hot topic, some sites using secured urls to rank very well in Google. Don't know if they were old or new as never bothered to check. Anyway, I never tried it to test it out to know whether it was really effective. Not likely, if it ever was effective, that loop hole was left open for to long.

I strongly doubt that, as it's too easy to manipulate. Google wants you to rank on the strength of your content and links, not on some technical trick.