HTTP Pages Indexed as HTTPS

[friendoffood]

My site used to be entirely HTTPS.  I switched months ago so that all links in the pages that the public has access to are now http only.  But I see now that when I do a site:www.qjamba.com,

the results include many pages with https in the beginning (including the home page!), which is not what I want.  I can redirect to http but that doesn't remove https from the indexing, right?

How do I solve this problem?

sample of results:

• Qjamba: Free Local and Online Coupons, coupon codes ...

  **<cite class="_Rm">https://www.qjamba.com/</cite>**One and Done savings. Printable coupons and coupon codes for thousands of local and online merchants. No signups, just click and save.

• Chicnova online coupons and shopping - Qjamba

  **<cite class="_Rm">https://www.qjamba.com/online-savings/Chicnova</cite>**Online Coupons and Shopping Savings for Chicnova. Coupon codes for online discounts on Apparel & Accessories products.

• Singlehop online coupons and shopping - Qjamba

  <cite class="_Rm">https://www.qjamba.com/online-savings/singlehop</cite>Online Coupons and Shopping Savings for Singlehop. Coupon codes for online discounts on Business & Industrial, Service products.

• Automotix online coupons and shopping - Qjamba

  <cite class="_Rm">https://www.qjamba.com/online-savings/automotix</cite>Online Coupons and Shopping Savings for Automotix. Coupon codes for online discounts on Vehicles & Parts products.

• Online Hockey Savings: Free Local Fast | Qjamba

  **<cite class="_Rm">www.qjamba.com/online-shopping/hockey</cite>**Find big online savings at popular and specialty stores on Hockey, and more.

• Hitcase online coupons and shopping - Qjamba

  **<cite class="_Rm">www.qjamba.com/online-savings/hitcase</cite>**Online Coupons and Shopping Savings for Hitcase. Coupon codes for online discounts on Electronics, Cameras & Optics products.

• Avanquest online coupons and shopping - Qjamba

  <cite class="_Rm">https://www.qjamba.com/online-savings/avanquest</cite>Online Coupons and Shopping Savings for Avanquest. Coupon codes for online discounts on Software products.

[friendoffood]

OMG! Yes, I see now, I was doing this:

header("Location: $goto ");

and I need to do something like this:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: $goto");

What a dunce...Thanks so much!

[Linda-Vassily]

That is another problem with your redirect implementation. The redirect from the uppercase to the lowercase is a 302 (sometimes referred to as temporary) redirect. What you want is a 301 redirect. When you do a 301 redirect Google will not index both pages because as far as Google is concerned, there is now only one page, the destination page.

[friendoffood]

Linda, thanks.

Looks lIke I need to figure out a redirect fix on this.

You addressed the question of once I successfully get the redirecting to work, do I need to tell Google to remove the https version?  It sounds like you are saying they will be dropped automatically.  Are you sure?  I ask because if you look at this: site:www.qjamba.com/online-savings/automotix  Google seems to have both upper case and lower case indexed, even though they have indexed the lower case because I recently added a redirect from uppercase to lowercase.  It appears they aren't automatically removing the upper from their indexing so I'm wondering if I need to use a removal tool..

[Linda-Vassily]

When I go to https://www.qjamba.com, I am not redirected to http://www.qjamba.com, so you should check on your redirects.[In fact, I seem to be 302 redirected back to https://www.qjamba.com!]

And once the redirects are correctly implemented it might take some time for Google to find them, but when that happens the https version will not be indexed.