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    • danielbeck
      danielbeck last edited by

      Cloudflare does have a free SSL certificate, which is shared among many domains (in my case 30+ domains). An alternative would be to use letsencrypt and generate a dedicated certificate.

      Can a shared SSL certificate hurt my google ranking?

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      • TucsonAZWebDesign
        TucsonAZWebDesign last edited by

        I have CloudFlare on about the same number of domains. You can put a separate SSL cert with a 15 year lease on each one if you have access to Apache, you just have to link it in your sites-available configuration files for each site.

        Sharing 1 SSL certificate among a bunch of sites will not hurt your SEO, just not as secure, but realistically it doesn't matter lol 1 will suffice.

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