27,000 pages in all in site when i have only have 10,000 pages

[union_jack]

My site like a good few others droped in ranking on the 23 March. I lost 2/3 of my traffic and have remained well ranked for a number of blue widget keywords but most of my smaller keywords have dropped.

When i run the site:mysite.com google brings back 27,000 pages when i only have 10,000 pages on my site, all the pages shown are www there does not seem to be any without www, so were are the 17,000 pages come from and are they the problem.

[oddsod]

Run a Xenu.

I had a problem like this, ran a xenu, found that some include pages had the relative URLs described incorrectly and it seemed that I had a lot more pages than I really did. My logs showed tens of thousands of 404s each time Google visited. I cleaned up the errors and Google is reporting closer to the real number of pages now.

[herb]

 
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[union_jack]

whats a xenu

[oddsod]

Xenu [google.com]

[g1smd]

The site: command is flaky at best at the moment. A site:dmoz.org search gives less than 1000 actual results, but says that there are 11 million matches (there should actually be less than 2 million matches).

Adding another word to the search term sees the viwable results increase to many tens of thousands. I see this on many sites right now. The site: command no longer lists all the pages of your site like it once did, but overestimates the number by a very large number in the count at the top of the page.