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: Does Google prefer 1-year SSL certificate over 3, 5-year SSL certificates? I'm currently working on converting my company's site to SSL and the developer I'm working with asked if Google preferred

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I'm currently working on converting my company's site to SSL and the developer I'm working with asked if Google preferred 1-year certificates over 3-year certificates.

I thought I vaguely remembered that issue being asked in a Google conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhZ6S0PFCY) but upon watching it again I guess not.

So this is just a quick question: has anyone came across any material where Google said a preference for the length of the certificate or if they don't care either way?

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I had a chance to look at some schema and data elements that Google keeps a couple of years ago so I am going off of 2 year old memory. There was nothing that I recall about the lifetime of the certificate. However, there were metrics for certificates including dates and who issued the certificate. As I recall, the business rule was: Is the certificate current, valid, and from a quality issuer? Keep that in mind. Not all certificate issuers are the same and a trust score is applied to each. So if you are working on certificates, some issuers are more trusted because of the care they take in issuing certificates. For example, choose GoDaddy over BobsCertShop located in the back of BobsSurfShop and Grille.

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