Google's Search Console team recently sent out an email to site owners with a warning that Google Chrome will take steps starting this October to identify and show warnings on non-secure sites that have form inputs.
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The problem is that the process of installing SSL certificates and transitioning site URLs from HTTP to HTTPS—not to mention editing all those links and linked images in existing content—sounds like a daunting task. Who has time and wants to spend the money to update a personal website for this?
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Sure, that first step was a breeze, but it's not the full picture of what we need to do to meet Google's definition of a secure site. The reason is that enabling the HTTPS setting neither provides nor installs a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate to a site that uses a custom domain. Sites that use the default web address provided by GitHub Pages are fully secure with that setting, but those of us that use a custom domain have to go the extra step of securing SSL at the domain level.
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