HTTP URL hangover after move to HTTPS

[AL123al]

A clients site was moved to https recently. It's a small site with only 6 pages. One of the pages is to advertise an emergency service.

HTTPS move worked fine. Submitted https to webmaster tools, submitted sitemap. 301 redirects. Rankings preserved. However, a few weeks later doing the site:example.com there are two pages for the emergency service. One says https the other is http. But the http one says the correct SEO title and the https one says an old SEO title. This wasn't expected.

When you click the HTTP URL link it 301 redirects to the HTTPS url and the correct SEO title is displayed in the browser tab.

When you click the HTTPS url link it returns a 200 and the correct SEO title is shown as expected in the browser tab.

Anyone have any idea what is going on? And how to fix? Need to get rid of the HTTP URL but in the site search it contains the correct title. Plus- why is it there anyway?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

HI,

What could happen here is that Google decided that the current URL is unfortunately not the right relevancy. Have you seen that with one of the other pages on the site?

Martijn.

[AL123al]

No, just this one page out of 6. Can you explain what you mean by that and how that would mean one http url is still being indexed?

[benesmartin]

Hey there,

I have actually very similar issue on my website. However, it is obviously quite normal (it takes Google some time to update the data) - check the following thread for some more information about this issue, especially the last answer.

https://moz.com/community/q/301s-being-indexed

Cheers, Martin