The reason why you don't see a green SSL lock next to your website URL

So everyone has upgraded to SSL and the WA world is a better place.

All fine and dandy. But it's not over yet. You still have to get it working properly for your site.

Couple of things you need to do . . .

First . . .

Look at your site in a browser and you're going to notice that you don't see a little green lock next to the word 'Secure' near your URL.

You're then going to think that something is wrong because in the WA management console it shows that the site has SSL. Yet your browser says it hasn't.

That's because you have links to 'http' sites on your webpage.

If Google sees one of these it won't show the secure green lock icon. It's called mixed content - a mix of secure and non-secure content on the page. You have to have it all secure to get the green lock to show.

So now you can go through all the links that you have on your site to other pages on your site and internal links to all images on your site and change all the links to 'https'.

If you have a big site that might take some time manually, there is a plugin you can use.

Try - https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/

I use it on my non WA hosted sites when I switched over to SSL and it automatically updates all the internal links to the 'https' equivalent. Which saved a lot of time on a 1,000 page site.

You'll also have to change all external links. Note that some won't have an 'https' version, so you'll have to decide where to still use them or not.

Once that's done . . .

Go to Google search console and add you site again using the 'https' version. Then upload the new sitemap.

No need to do anything for Google Analytics - that works the same.

But you'll have to do the same for Bing / Yandex etc