Does NOARCHIVE harm ranking?

[artdog]

I've been making enough changes to my site that I didn't want G or Y! to cache my pages. I'm done for awhile and wonder if I should undo the noarchive in robots txt.

When I look at the competition it all is cached.

thanx

[vrtlw]

There are other methods to prevent your pages appearing in the SERPs cache. Personally I believe the noarchive tag to be an indicator of dubious techniques and you may well be penalized for that. I would remove the tag ASAP.

[Krapulator]

It doesnt do this site any harm!

[Visit Thailand]

We had the G'bot no archive tag for quite a while without any problems. We are now switching to the robots noarchive tag and have not seen any problems either.

I was tired of people seeing not the latest page in the cache and prefer them to visit my site 100% rather than just a cache.

[artdog]

Visit Thai,

I agree, the cache was so far behind the changes that it was becoming irrelevant.

I use index,follow because I want to show up some day on G like I do on Y! Just didn't want to shoot myself in one foot while trying so hard to run on the other.

artdog

[artdog]

VRTLW

"There are other methods to prevent your pages appearing in the SERPs cache."

Could you give me some idea as to how this is done?

[vrtlw]

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[artdog]

Thanks everyone, good stuff.