Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
we are using the noarchive tag on out homepage. For the past the page has not been cached and no "Cached" link showed up.
The way you expect thing to be.
However, two days ago all of a sudden our ranking dropped by 18 positions.
Trying to figure out why, we noticed that the search result all of sudden displays a "Cached" link.
This should not be, because we use the noarchive tag.
If you click on the "Cached" link, then you get something like:
Your search - cache:ojAkPK7Uvm1J:www.example.com/ site:www.example.com - did not match any documents.
Has it ever happened to anybody else using the noarchive tag, that his homepage all of a sudden ignores it, displays the "Cached" link, which delivers the error message above?
[edited by: tedster at 4:15 pm (utc) on Feb. 14, 2008]
[edit reason] switch to example,com - it can never be owned [/edit]
Two days is too quick to be overly concerned, although I realize that a drop of 18 positions is quite painful. The symptoms you see do seem like the sign of a bug on Google'send, I'd say, and there's every reason to hope for a quickfix of whatever data bits have been crossed up.
