Finding those de-indexed pages...

Please don't tar and feather me on this one, I am quite new to everything SEO etc...

I usually use site:www... to find my pages indexed by google. Like a lot of people I lost a big chunk of mine a while ago. Then I came across http://www.elixirsystems.com/tools/linkpopularity.php

which seems to pick up a lot more pages indexed by using site:yoursite.com, so they leave off the www. They report shows results from both queries.

What do you guys make of this?

 

cool tool. Thanks friend

 

It means you should be using mod_rewrite to forward your non-www links to your www pages.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

So even if I have never posted a link anywhere excluding the www I must still forward them with mod_rewrite?

 

its recommended becuase although you may not, a site out of control may link to a non-www version

 

Thanks for the advice stymie and romance, any idea's on where I can find a good concise overview of mod_rewrite?