A page has PR3 - why not cached?

[johnlim9988]

Hi,

We go to a page at subdomain.yahoo.com, it has PR3, but when I try to see the cashed snapshot of page, it did not match any documents.

What happened?

A Page can be have PR3 but not cashed, why?

[irldonalb]

Its a common question on this forum. Could be a few different reasons. Any or non of the following:

Your domain could be banned form Google.
It could be that your looking at the Toolbar PageRank which isnt a true reflection of your pagerank.
Google may have found the link to your subdomain, passed PR value but the googlebot has yet to reach your domain.

Have a look at some previous comments:
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[M_Bison]

Maybe it's a Google bug?

I looked at a Google cache of a page in a well known and respected site with a PR3 a couple of weeks ago with a cache date of early may. Now the page seems to have disappeared from the index, as well as the cache.

[Silvery]

There have indeed been some issues going on with Google's page-cache display in recent weeks. I believe this was acknowledged by some of the Google personnel attending the recent SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle.

If it's due to this current bug at Google, I expect it'll get resolved within a few days/weeks.

Additionally, you didn't add a META tag onto the page to direct the search engines not to display the cache, did you? If so, you could've caused the cached version to be unavailable.

Ex:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

[Marcia]

We go to a page at subdomain.yahoo.com, it has PR3, but when I try to see the cashed snapshot of page, it did not match any documents.

What happened?

A Page can be have PR3 but not cashed, why?

Are you trying to see the cache via the Toolbar, or directly from right at the Google site?