{"id":1052,"date":"2014-11-26T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2014-12-02T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:41:13","slug":"stopping-cloudflare-ssl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2014\/11\/stopping-cloudflare-ssl.html","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Cloudflare SSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I implemented the CloudFlare flexible SSL and installed the CloudFlare SSL plugin on JT30.com and all of the pages correctly redirected to HTTPS. This was supposed to be a good thing. I did it because I was supposed to get an SEO bump from Google.<\/p>\n<p>The actual result that the Google search query results according to Google Webmaster Tools dropped to practically nothing starting the day that I changed to SSL. Google stopped sending me traffic as soon as I turned on the CloudFlare flexible SSL.<\/p>\n<p>Today I turned it off (which is pain because WordPress likes to go into an endless redirection loop). I have to go into FTP to delete the CloudFlare plugin and go into PHPMyAdmin to change the site URL in the WP_OPTIONS table to HTTP from HTTPS. This is unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>I am waiting for the Mozilla SSL to come out, and I am hoping my web hosting company will let me set it up without having to pay them a fee. If they don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll have to change hosting companies yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Update:<br \/>\nGoogle referrals are starting to come back:<br \/>\nHere is a screen grab showing the drop around the 14th and the slow rise back after the 26th when I turned off SSL.<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/images\/gwebm.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I implemented the CloudFlare flexible SSL and installed the CloudFlare SSL plugin on JT30.com and all of the pages correctly redirected to HTTPS. This was supposed to be a good thing. I did it because I was supposed to get an SEO bump from Google. The actual result that the Google search query results according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}