I have a new wordpress blog that I have just put up. It seems the way I have my settings is that when I go to http://www.mysite.com I am automatically redirected to http://mysite.com. I dont know if this is a problem for duplicate content or anything, however I dont want that redirect. I just want it to stay at http://www.mysite.com when I go there. Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this?
Why are you complicating things. If you would like www. and http:// this may cause duplicate content. Leave it the way it is.
Google webmaster tools recommend sticking with the "www". There is no need to reinvent the wheel and it really has no SEO value. If you didn't edit the robots.txt file, then try checking your blog settings...it's possible that you typed it in that way when you set it up.