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Google's "cache:" command at times give no result even for a high PR and well ranking webpage.
Any idea whats going on?
Google's "cache:" command at times give no result even for a high PR and well ranking webpage.
Often, this will happen when the page has been framed and the noframes area has been used for optimization. Noframes content is not shown in the cache.
The page might be a 100% frame. This can be done because a form input is hosted on another domain... or it might be done as a kind of poor man's cloaking, to manipulate rankings. I wouldn't recommend the latter as a technique.
Google's "cache:" command
You were talking about the "cache:" operator, not the "Cached" link in the serps.
In this event, you might be trying a url that doesn't have a Cached link... because caching has been prevented by the meta robots "noarchive" attribute on the page....
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
The other possibility is that you might have left a space in between cache: and the page url, which would result in a search for those terms. I'm assuming this is not likely.
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:38 am (utc) on Mar. 20, 2007]
It can also be an indicator that the page is a very old supplemental result page.
Using the info: operator and then clicking on the cache link from there, I’ve found that if the link returns no results then it’s generally a supplemental result.
For sites with more than 1000 pages you can normally trace the page down using the site: operator and inurl: operator in the same search to find a supplemental result tag next to the URI.
Like this:
site:example.com inurl:directoryname
Vimes.
