This morning and yesterday, the webmaster forums started getting polluted with questions about Google Webmaster Tools issues and notifying them about SSL certificate errors.
In short, back in 2009, Google began notifying webmasters of security certificate issues. All of a sudden, yesterday, tons of people started getting them all at once.
Chris Ainsworth posted this on Google+, and we have several threads at Google Webmaster Help.
Some of the messages, webmasters are claiming are sent in error. Either the certificate works fine or the site does not have SSL at all on it. One webmaster wrote, “I got the same message, and it’s irritating, because we don’t us SSL.”
Google has not responded to any of the threads at the time of publishing this story.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help & Google+.
Update: John Mueller told me:
