Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
"These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: cheap widgets"
Is this new? Are these anchors from the originating page or something else?
Are these anchors from the originating page or something else?
It;s anchor text from pages that link to the cache page you are looking at. Google has had this feature in place for a long time, but most commonly you are checking a page which also has the keyword on it at least once, so you may not have noticed it before.
I have a subjective sense that I've been running across this a bit more very recently -- I wonder if anchor text scoring just got dialed up a bit.
And, no, it isn't always from links that point to the page either.
I see this where a page is (often) supplemental and is being returned for keyword searches where the keywords are no longer on the newer version of the page that Google has cached.
I see the old words from the old version of the page in the snippet. In the cache I see a newer version of the page. That cache contains the message that you mention.
I know that message to be untrue because I know that there are no such links pointing to that page.
I also see this at the point that Google is starting to index a new version of a page. For a day or two you get odd results depending on which datacentre you look at.
For example, someone I know has changed their telephone number. Right now I see for a page that was modified on March 25th, that some datacentres have the old March 22nd cache and others the new March 27th cache, and that in some datacentres that the snippet text exactly matches the cache, and that in others there is a new cache but the snippet shows the old data, and in others the snippet shows the new data but the cache shows the old version of the page.
When the cache is the "wrong version" for the search query that was done, I get the message that you mention.
