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I can't imagine an ssl certificate having any impact on how a search engine sees your site. In all honesty it would be ridiculous to give a boost in ranking because you have a certificate.
Most sites do not need an ssl for anything and you should really only be using them on the pages that are sending sensitve data back and forth.
If Google decided to give a site a SERP boost for having a certificate then all sites that have been SEOd in any way will soon have one, which kind of reduces the trust they'd carry with them.
The certificate can build trust with the people who visit your site and if they trust you more they are more likely to habd over their credit card number. But more trust from the search engines I don't see it and I think something like that would destroy the value of the certificate.
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