Updated cache, but no date stamp alongside the url

Why on some pages and not on others?

[crobb305]

I see competitor pages constantly getting a fresh date stamp along side their url when Google updates the cache. For my pages, I see weekly cache refreshes, but no date stamps.

I thought this was an interesting observation, even if insignificant. Has anyone else seen this? Does it imply anything about the page?

[tedster]

You know, I can't see a real communication about the domain coming from that fresh date anymore. Some of the SERPs for money terms that I watch show #1 through #9 with no date and the #10 has a date.

[steveb]

It states plainly less crawl activity for your page, and implying less volume of linking and less page/text changes for you.

[crobb305]

Steve, that is sorta what I was thinking. But what I have been observing lately, is that while my pages ARE getting refreshed (based on the cache date at the top of the cache document), they are not getting the date stamp along side the url in the serps. For instance, last week, one of my pages got a fresh cache two times. Neither of these prompted the date stamp.

I certainly hope it doesn't mean anything.

[tedster]

crobb305 - did those URLs ever have the fresh date in the past?

[crobb305]

Yes. Frequently (every couple days) until about mid May. This was about the same time that I discovered DT outranking me for snippets of my own content. I don't know if their cached version of my site triggered duplicate content issues. I discussed this in another thread [webmasterworld.com] about a month ago.

[steveb]

Traditionally google had two bots types, one was strictly a freshbot. You can get a new cache from both, but the freshbot one is temporary.