Ive been racking my brains why i got crushed in the last update and am not sure if im onto something but when I type in site:http://mysite.com I get my homepage at the top followed by all my other pages, now if i type in site:www.mysite.com I get tons of pages of a forum that i created from my database that all have the same title and description etc, for some bizarre reason when i created them i did them with www instead of http://mysite which all my other pages have, any thoughts on what i can do.
Choose either www.mysite.com or mysite.com and stick with it. Once you have pointed all your links at the right place then you need to 301 redirect the one you no longer use so it points at the one you do use. At the moment you probably have 2 sites with the same content at different addresses which may give you a duplicate content penalty........ Also each page in the forum needs unique titles.
IMHO the fact that you have all these pages headed the same way is irrelevant - not helpful if you are targeting different KWs, but not detrimental. You did not tell of the page count, but, I think you may find that, if you look carefully, you may find that these pages are also under the site:mysite.com and as a consequence it is a far higher number than with www With one of my sites it is like this: site:www.xxx.com 115 pages site:xxx.com 1410 pages - and is led by the same www pages another long established site [mix of html and php] that got slaughtered in Jagger for the main KW but is now back to 15 [used to be 6] site:www.yyy.com 2920 pages site:yyy.com 3190 another site that I have just launched site:www.zzz.com 71 pages site:zzz.com 100 pages - again it includes the www pages but here it also is showing the sub-domains eg. forums.yyy.com Now what this means IMHO is that G now reads all pages as xxx.com...G certainly didn't do so before, and it changes strategy but certainly it hasn't affected your rankings - that is something else
under site:www.mysite.com google is showing 94 pages with site://mysite.com google is showing 394 pages. Any relevance there because im lost i want all my pages to be http://mysite
What I just said was that G is now showing all directories under the same mysite.com How that affects you is how you point at it ! That is the strategy ...and as Mad4 says above you must choose one or the other. The reason ? Because most people have pointed at www. in the past the PR is now on the www. Herein lies the conundrum: do I run for the www. with less pages or the mysite.com with all the pages? If you are concerned about the PR, then you should not, and you should go for the one with the most pages and point the links at that. The only question lies with the COOP as to which you should use, but that is another question
To be honest I think i would rather just get rid of my forum on the outside of my site would this resolve my problem by doing this. To prevent all robots from indexing a page on your site, you'd place the following meta tag into the <HEAD> section of your page: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">