On: Google and The Online Slang Dictionary (2020)

[eek2121]

While Google does have manual penalties, I do not believe that is what is going on here.

There are a few problems with the site, for example, it redirected me to use HTTP instead of using HTTPS: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-r...

[kwhitefoot → eek2121]

Why is that a problem?

[JHorse → kwhitefoot]

Apart from just generally being insecure, I believe google penalizes what it classes as misconfiguration/bad practices on the server side

[callalex → kwhitefoot]

This article explains in an approachable way. See especially the section on https “myth-conceptions” about why you need to use it even on webpages that don’t handle sensitive data.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/why-use-https/