Google's cache is stale?

question google cache update

[ChimmyChunga]

I've read in many places that the link on Yahoo, will help a pagerank significantly. I've got on Yahoo, a couple months ago now, and I'm listed fine there, however Google's cache hasn't updated that page. How long should it take, and how can I see the last time Googlebot fetched a given URL?

Also, I used the Google Toolbar, and have gone to my own site a few times, etc... and Google still doesn't have ANY ranking for my site...

[Syren_Song]

Just wondering - have you actually listed your site in ODP? If not, you may want to try that, rather than waiting for Google to search Yahoo's directory. Here's the address:

[dmoz.org...]

So far, most of the sites I've listed there show up in Google within 2 months.

[shady]

Example:
week 1: Site in yahoo.
week 5: Google respiders yahoo with your site in
week 9: google builds a new index with the home page of your site indexed.

This is just an example and depends exactly when the site was first listed, but I would guess you may find it listed in google in the next week or two.

[martin]

I'm not sure if this is directly related but I noticed that after the update this month there was a period when the Google cache was pre-update.

[ChimmyChunga]

I got it on ODP too, about the same time (7-8 weeks ago).

Reading the update FAQ, it appears that every month or so, Google would update their cache for a given URL, but it seems that the late september update already passed, with no change to the cache, although I see that their is a pre-update and a post-update crawl, is a given URL (already in the index) assured to be recrawled within a 4-5 week window?

[Syren_Song]

Don't know if this will help, but I found this forum topic which may be of some use to you.

[webmasterworld.com...]

It relates to Google spidering/updating and there are a few links to sites which may (or may not) answer your questions.

Good luck!