Google reverts to older version of web site

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[customdy]

Hi I am new here, looks like a great forum, wish I had found it earlier... I have started a small business about 6 months ago, did all of the web development myself, finally and after a lot of late nights and coming up the learning curve,my site is close is to where I wanted it.

Here is the problem that I am having... I used a pay submission (RegisterEverywhere) to have my site add to all of the search engines. After the monthly submission I rank
very high (top 5) in the big search engines - google, yahoo, etc. But after 2 weeks or so, I drop out of sight. When I check the cache of my website in google it has reverted to an older version of my website. How do I prevent this from happening? I changed the revist meta from 2 weeks to never but not sure this is going to really do anything.

Thanks

[cwebb]

That's the way it's meant to be, the cache always shows an older version, I wouldn't set the revisit tag to never, better use daily hehe

[piskie]

Hello customdy and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

In my opinion, the revisit tag is of no use these days. All it will do is raise your expectations. Googlebot more than other spiders sets its visiting schedule inteligently according to what it sees after successive visits.

Incidentaly I would be careful using "Submit to Everything" type of services. There are many tales of woe in previous threads on this forum. Any Search Engine worth bothering with will find you unless they have some form of Pay for Spider/Inclusion.

[customdy]

Thanks for the feedback......... sounds like I am wasting my money on the "submit to everything service".
Thanks

[pallison]

Just a note to clarify how the cache works in Google:

[google.com...]

"Google takes a snapshot of each page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a back-up in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it looked when we indexed it. The cached content is the content Google uses to judge whether this page is a relevant match for your query."

So if you see an older version in the cache it usually means your updated page has not been indexed by Google!

Hope this helps.