Indexed non www. content

[adamzski]

Google has indexed a lot of old non www.mysite.com contnet

my page at mysite.com still answers queries, should I 301 every url on it?

Google has indexed about 200 pages all erogenous 404's, old directories and dynamic content at mysite.com

www.mysite.com has 12 pages listed that are all current.

Is this affecting my rankings?

[RyanKent]

This issue needs to be cleaned up. It can definitely affect your rankings and search results.

Steps to take:

1. Contact your web host and inform them you wish to redirect all "non-www" URLs to their "www" counterpart. This request is quite common and can be done easily by your host.

2. After your host makes the change, verify that it works. Visit a couple pages from your site and remove the "www" prefix. When you hit enter to visit the non-www version of the page, the "www" subdomain should automatically appear.

3. Since your site is only 12 pages, take a close look at your site. Check every page and examine the URL listed in every link. Be certain the URLs use the "www" prefix and you do not have any broken links.

4. When you are finished, try creating a sitemap. You can generate a free sitemap at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. If your site has 12 pages, your site map should show 12 pages. If it shows more, try to figure out why.

5. You can also use the SEOmoz crawler to get a detailed look of your site if there are further issues with your sitemap that you cannot figure out.

Once this issue is cleaned up, it will probably take a month for Google to clean up your site in their index. You can log into Google Webmaster Tools to monitor the status. The "number of indexed pages" should decrease a bit each week.