Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
During the move, one of my programmers set up some virtual apache directories and wound up putting two url's on the same IP even though I strongly forbid it. As a result, Google indexed secured pages from one site as if they were pages from the other site.
We have since seperated the two sites with unique IP addresses, but google still has the pages indexed, and the pages never really existed for the 1 domain in the first place.
There is not an opportunity to do a 301 re-direct or even a 404 page not found as the https of this domain does not exist (yet).
When navigating to the pages that are indexed, one is greeted with the "Internet Explorer can not display this page"
So, if Google can not receive a 301 or a 404 or anything else from our apache, how can we get these now supplemental pages out of the index?
Sounds to me as the pages are responding with a 404 header which is the normal server header for the error page check with the default error page on the server.
If these pages are supplemental in the index then they will fall out of site: operator page results in time, make sure those urls that are listed are giving the server header of 404 however, run a test on your server that delivers the same default page that isn’t an Https page and that should give you the server header, I don’t think there are tools out there that test Https page headers might be I’ve never looked for one.
Also you can check your log files for the server header of your test if it’s a 404 and these pages in G are supplemental they will go away, they might come back another day but they won’t harm your rankings any more. There are threads on this forum concerning “Good” supplemental and “Bad” supplemental results sounds to me that you have the former.
Vimes.
