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Google Results Do Not Show Cache

         

Blackguy

8:56 pm on Dec 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I am sorry to keep asking and did not start sharing my experience yet since i am still learning a lot about google and do not feel i am fit to give an expert opinion about google search engine.

I was looking at the indexed pages of a site and found out that most of the indexed pages do not show a cashed version on google nor the date. It only show the url and one or two sentences from the page and then "similar pages" and nothing else. What does it mean?

If a page is already in the google index would google crawl it again even if there is no more any link pointing to it?

Thank you

ciml

11:51 am on Dec 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If you see the page title as the link in the Google results, and a snippet or the META description below, then the lack of a cache link is most likely due to noarchive in the META tags:
[google.com...]

If you see the URL as the link, with no snippet or description then it's because Google have found the URL, but not fetched it. This maybe because the URL is excluded with /robots.txt, or because the URL is not linked well enough for Googlebot to have bothered fetching it.

Blackguy

5:13 am on Dec 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



thank you for your reply.

If somebody can answer the remaining questions this would more helpful.

Thank you

Powdork

5:38 am on Dec 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I believe Google will still crawl it, but nowhere near as frequently as if there were links pointing to it.