Stale Google Cache Page

Not refreshed in a long time.

[darrell]

My sites cashe has not been refreshed by Google in over two months. Is that a good indication that Google has not crawled my site? I still have the old cashe even though the index page was changed nearly two months ago. Not only that but my page rank has not had an up either. Can anyone comment on this?
Thanks.

[dirkz]

Is that a good indication that Google has not crawled my site?

It could even be that it was crawled but not updated in the index. You can only tell by a look at your log files.

Remote diagnosis (since I don't know the site etc.): You need much more incoming links with good anchor text to achieve a more regular updating schedule.

Are all of your pages in the index? How high is the PR?

[kellyandsummer]

"You need much more incoming links with good anchor text to achieve a more regular updating schedule."

That is probably true for ranking, but not for the cache apparently. I have a PR7 that Googlebot visits every day, and the cache is now 3 weeks old.

[vrtlw]

Are you sure about this, you could include an SSI to display the time and date the Page was cached.

To do this (assuming you have SHTML capabilities) put the following line somewhere in your HTML <!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

Hope it maybe helps

Paul

[dirkz]

I have a PR7 that Googlebot visits every day, and the cache is now 3 weeks old

Otoh, I have pages way below PR7 with a cache rather regularly updated. Do you modify the pages often? I think this could be the key.

[seofreak]

>>I have a PR7 that Googlebot visits every day, and the cache is now 3 weeks old

has it always done that? how long has your site been at pr7?

[Rajiv]

Hi, Just try to update (or modify) your pages (especially home page) and upload it more often. This might help!

[dirkz]

darrell, your index page seems to be non-existent in Google's index (site:www.example.tld -qewrtz). In order to get fresh content into Google it's important to "announce" it on a page Googlebot visits regularly (which is "/" in most cases, but Googlebot can learn).

I would recommend to link "Home" on every page to your main index page ("index.htm"), I would also recommend to let your top banner point to your home instead of the current page.

I strongly recommend to get access to your raw log files if possible.

After you have restructured your navigation with home included I would get some fresh incoming links to get Googlebot to your "/".

Hope that helps.