I took some advice I read here last week and it worked. I bought a ssl certificate for one of my sites, and bang straight to page one for my keyword. OK it is only 1 keyword. It is a niche, but nonetheless I was page 5 before I only bought the certificate for a year since it is all my hosting would allow. But yes it worked.
Are you sure that's not just a coincidence. I don't have an SSL on my site, live for 7 months, but sure I'm sandboxed
Yes I guess I would want to hear from a few more poeple if they have seen the same end result after registering.
I seriously, seriously dout an SSL certificate had anything to do with the moment of your website within SERPS, it has nothing to do with SERPs.
Site is 2 months old and just seems easier to get onto a decent ranking. But, the domain name was 7 years old when i bought it. Easiest domain name I have ever optomised.