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Cached but unique text search doesn't work

         

WebWalla

8:02 am on Jun 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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The domain is more than 1 year old and was parked until recently. Even when it was parked it had 4 or 5 links to it. About 2 weeks ago I changed the DNS to point to my server and put up 1 page of content.

Now, I can see that Google has cached the new page (on the 64.233.183.104 data center).

If I then specifically go to that data center to search for some unique text from that page between quotes, nothing is found.

Would anybody have an explanation for this?

thanks.

ecmedia

2:28 pm on Jun 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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You may need to build more links from some well established websites.

WebWalla

3:08 pm on Jun 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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The site is a PR3 with 5 good links (from PR4 or 5 sites).

Would the lack of links allow it be cached but not appearing in results? I thought just the fact that it is cached would mean it should appear at least for a unique text search.

tedster

5:53 pm on Jun 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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You would think so, but it hasn't been that way for a while - at least not if you're talking about unique phrases from the content area. If a page is low PR, there's a good chance it's in the supplemental index and that seems to mean the content is not fully tagged - not the complete treatment that would be given to a regular index page, in other words. Unique phrases from the title element may show up in the search results, but not necessarily the text content of the page.

WebWalla

7:17 pm on Jun 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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In this case not even unique text (between quotes) from the title. Strange.

WebWalla

1:44 pm on Jun 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

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For those interested, the site now does appear in searches, even for its keywords. So it seems that it was simply a question of time for the links and/or content to be factored in.