Using NOARCHIVE

Any PR difference?

[tlhmh1]

I use a number of position: absolutes on my homepage. When one uses the cache, some of my information is positioned over top of Google's cache header.

Is there a way to easily fix this?

If not, is there any known penalty for someone putting NOARCHIVE on a page?

[edited by: tlhmh1 at 2:05 pm (utc) on Oct. 4, 2002]

[korkus2000]

WebmasterWorld uses no archive and I don't think there as been any adverse effect.

[tlhmh1]

That's good to know. Can anyone confirm this?

[korkus2000]

In webmasterworlds robots.txt file it has

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

It does the same as the meta tag as far as google is concerned. I have seen the meta tag used here and there. Brett is constantly tweaking the code. Right now I don't see it up.

I also came across this discussion.
[webmasterworld.com...]

[tlhmh1]

Hmmm... Thanks for the reference. I definitely do not want to hurt my rankings. Blocking the cache is not THAT important to me.

[Visit Thailand]

I have started putting no archive on all pages except the homepage for all sites, for just over two months now, and have seen no adverse affects (apart from the fact that you do not seem to get a freshness date when you do not allow cache) but position etc is the same as before. PR dropped one on one site but I think that is for other reasons.

I just want users to see the latest page displayed on not be juggled between different versions and dates.