How can I get Google to forget an https version of one page on my site?

[BostonWright]

Google mysteriously decided to index the broken, https version of one page on my company's site (we have a cert for the site, but this page is not designed to be served over https and the CSS doesn't load).

The page already has many incoming links to the http version, and it has a canonical URL with http.  I resubmitted it on http with webmaster tools.  Is there anything else I could do?

[Kara.Wallace]

Hi Joel,

Sounds like you have everything setup correctly so far with the canonical and GWT.

Next step would be to do a 301 redirect from the https version to the http version. After that and your changes above, it should get remove from Google's index.

Note: You may also want to run a scan with a program like Screaming Frog to ensure that you are not accidentally linking to the https version somewhere on your site or in your sitemap.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[HillyCE]

I would also add Google Webmaster Tools to the site and head to the area where you can ask Google to remove a SERP listing.

[BostonWright]

Thanks Hilary - I'm concerned that if I do that, I would lose the http version as well.

[HillyCE]

Are both pages being indexed? If so, you won't lose the http:// version because googlebots are treating them as two separate pages.