Should we dump the https from a client site?

[theideapeople]

We inherited a site that has both http and https.  No e-commerce or data transfer...just html.  Should we dump the https certificate?  I think it might be causing issues with indexing and possible duplicate content.

The https site has a certificate warning message...not good.

The URL is www.charlottemechanical.com

[jesse-landry]

Hi Jay,

I'm not seeing a certificate warning but that's because nowhere on your site am I being directed to an https://---- address.

I poked around a bit and didn't see any of your internal links reference the secured site so I'm not sure why you're seeing this message. In order to get the certificate warning I have to force an s at the end of the http and obviously nobody else will be doing that.

That all being said, if you don't have any reason to have the site secured then don't worry about renewing the SSL cert and move on. Look for any internal links that are absolutes pointed to the https (run a site search in the html) and change those. I honestly recommend moving to relative internal links anyway but that's kind of a personal preference..

Good luck!

[theideapeople]

Thanks for the good advice, Jesse!