google cache problem

googlebots have visited site twice but cached version not changed

[rfeinmesser]

I have updated one of our webpages - although the bots have visited the page and 'cached' it - the cached version is the previous version, not the current one.

Does anyone know if this means that Google is not yet 'seeing' my new page?

thank you

[accdev]

<spliced from another thread>

I have a site_map.htm page on my site which contains links to all of the pages on my site. Google has indexed the page successfully but when I look at the cached page it is months out of date. Google states that the page is a snapshot from a crawl on December 27th 2005 but this cannot be the case as the version shown is months old. i.e. I have updated the site map with several new pages but they aren't appearing on the cached version.

Any ideas on what the problem is?

[edited by: tedster at 4:07 pm (utc) on Jan. 11, 2006]

[CsectionRecovery]

I have seen this too. Even stranger - at one point it was caching the new version... and then a few days later it was back to caching the old version!

[cbin500]

I have recently had a similar problem on two totally different sites. The first happened early december and the second happend 2 days ago. In both cases if you do a site: search and then click on the cached button they show current day old caches. But if you search cache: the first one shows a cache from feb 27 05 and the second says no cache available. All other pages are cached on schedule everytime correctly. Also once this happend both lost their all of their top rankings. Only their subpages rank now.

However this is fixed in Big Daddy. So hopefully that will carry over soon.

[trinorthlighting]

I have noticed the same things. Seems like google is stuck in some sort of flux between new and old information.

[Phil_Payne]

I updated three pages about six days ago and one of them again about three days ago. The first changes were trivial - the last one more significant, so I reuploaded the sitemap to notify Google about the last change and, of course, notified it about the other two as a side-effect.

The sitemap was downloaded within minutes. The pages were crawled within a day. All were indexed sometime this morning.

Here's the good bit. None of the cached versions I've seen so far reflect the newest version of the last changed page. But all searches do.

So as far as I can tell - a unique keyword in that last page crawled three days ago is live in search on all DCs I've tried. Bigdaddy's cache has returned the six-day-old version of all three pages, and a version of the last changed page that I think was current in November. All this morning.

I've decided to turn caching off in a robots metatag. It's more trouble and more exposure than it's worth.

[accdev]

Thanks for all of the replies.

After several weeks of the cache being incorrect it magically sorted itself out last night, also some of my pages which had disappeared altogether reappeared!

[tom6a]

I’ve noticed that the search results do not seem to be updated at the same time as the cache. I’ve seen the same thing others are reporting in this forum…Google’s robot is visiting on a daily basis but the cache is days and sometimes weeks old. This does not mean however that Google does not ‘see’ your page. If you search for a very specific unique selection of keywords from your updated site (more recent than the cache) your page will show up even though that selection of words is not in Google’s cache.

[hermosa]

Same story here for my two sites and another site that I maintain. Old caches also googlebot does not seem to be crawling as deeply, as often althought it did a deep crawl last night.

[hermosa]

Actually, the crawl wasn't that deep. Googlebot grabbed 25 of over 70 pages. Lately it has been grabbing only 6.