Google Search – Your Connection is Not Private

  • When clicking a link to an “article” (about page works) on my site on Google search engine (in chrome or firefox) I get the warning message “Your Connection is Not Private”

    I saw in previous staff responses to the question that sharing the link with HTTPS and not HTTP can cause this problem.

    The trouble is Google has listed my website “article” with HTTPS, so anyone who clicks a google link cannot visit my website.

    This is how the site article appears in google search:
    https://greatbritishzine.co.uk/2016/01/18/history-of-the-5-pound-note/

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  • Hi, the problem here is that your site’s article appears as if it needed HTTPS (SSL certificate) to be accessed.
    You can do 2 things to correct this:
    1. Buy and install an SSL certificate in your site, which also can help improve your site’s SEO.
    2. Ask Google to re-crawl your site using the Google Webmasters Tools, here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url but this process can take quite a while until your site is re indexed.
    Also, check in your configuration that the access is set as https:// instead of https:// in your WordPress dashboard, section Settings -> General (you can also check this directly in the database, in the table wp_options).

    Thread Starter greatbritishzine

    (@greatbritishzine)

    Hi, thanks for the response.

    I am using the free version of wordpress with a purchased domain. Will these solutions work for me or do I need to upgrade to the next level?

    I don’t appear to have a configuration setting in my dashboard > settings ? general.

    Oh in this case, you could only go for the 2nd option, at first I thought you had a self hosted WordPress install.
    Hope that can be useful or that any other user can contribute with something else here.

    Thread Starter greatbritishzine

    (@greatbritishzine)

    Thanks for the help.

    Is it not weird that Google would auto put only my article page s an HTTPS listing? My other free wordpress site doesn’t have any problems like this.

    Yes, I found it very strange. Don’t know the reason why this happened, but this problem is related to Google more than the server in this case, cause you didn’t change the protocol (from HTTP to HTTPS).

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