Originally Posted by 3xmedia

yeah, those saying blindly switch to https, you can only benefit from it have no idea what they are talking about. I switched a few sites from my network to https and haven't noticed any benefit, SE ranking was the same or maybe 5-10% lower so I still keep many of my sites on http and they rank good. anyway, if I launch a new site, it's on https already just to make Google and new browsers happier, but my sites don't handle any sensitive data.