Latest news from the CloudFlare blog ( http://blog.cloudflare.com/google-now-factoring-https-support-into-ranking-cloudflare-on-track-to-make-it-free-and-easy ) indicates that Google may factor in SSL support as a positive ranking signal. Therefore, I've enabled SSL for my blog. Applying for a Certificate SSL requires a certificate on the server side. It's best not to generate this certificate yourself, as most browsers will flag it as untrusted. StartSSL is currently the only trusted certificate authority that issues free SSL certificates recognized by most browsers. You can follow the steps in this article: http://www.freehao123.com/startssl-ssl/ . In practice, since StartSSL connections can be slow, following the wizard might cause the process to hang. If it hangs,...