Google index showing more page than original site

Need suggestion from experts

[multilab]

Hi to all members,

i am running a 1200 static html page business website. i found some strange thing in google index in my site on 18th after indexing and updating some pages.

when i tried to find out the particular commmon word using site search with in my site. It is showing about 4320 pages for the particular common word ( more than 1200 original pages).

Can any one knows the reason for this?

i am afraid that , whether somebody is trying to spam my site

[phantombookman]

Hi
I too have a site showing nearly 3x the number of pages for the site: search term than I actually have on the site.

I hope it is a glitch and not a potential duplicate content etc problem waiting to happen!

Does anyone know anything or have the same problem?
Regards
Rod

[europeforvisitors]

Same here. My numbers have always looked higher than they should have been, but the site: command is now returning more than 3 times the actual number of pages on my site. I believe the jump occurred around the same time that I lost 75% of my Google referrals on March 23.

I've had a 301 in place to redirect www URLs to non-www URLs since the end of March, when a couple of helpful members in the Supporters Forum suggested that I implement the 301. The number of site:mysite.com pages reported by Google has dropped from 15,200 a few days ago to 14,200 today, and the number of site:www.mysite.com pages has dropped from 759 to 578, so maybe things are getting straightened out. (I've also seen my rankings go up in the last 24 hours for some of the search terms that I'd ranked well for until March 23, so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for a resurrection!)

[europeforvisitors]

Hmmm...Yesterday site:www.mysite.com was showing 578 www results (when it shouldn't have been showing any); today, that number has jumped to 1,540 despite a www-to-non-www redirect that's been in place for nearly three weeks.

A header check shows that the redirect is working, so I wonder what's going on? Is Google's index reverting to older data?

We liberal-arts types shouldn't have to worry about this kind of thing. :-)