I get the basic concept of the SSL, and now it seems the search engines are punishing sites without them. I never worried about them before because we don't sell anything online or take any information outside of basic contact form stuff, but seems like now I need to. So googled SSL and tried to read up on the various types and its fucking confusing. So basically, here's what I got:
1) Shared hosting plan at HostGator.
2) 1 primary domain that I don't do shit with and a couple subdomains that will be running wordpress sites and be used by addon domains. In case I didn't put that right, I have a bunch of setups like hr97.com/ousuxshit and another domain ousuxshit.com that runs off it. On each of these is a basic contact form, one actually is a plug-in from a cloud service I use for project management.
Ideally, I'd like all the sites to have the little lock icon and such so people get that warm and fuzzy and fucking chrome stops saying 'Not secure'.
Educate me please!