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Bing penalizing no-cache instruction?

Article with no-cache tag not ranking

         

badbadmonkey

7:17 am on Jul 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I've noticed that a particular article I have on my site with a "no-cache" tag is not ranking at all in Bing. It's indexed; it comes up on a listing of the site pages, but doesn't rank at all for any of the keywords it should. Other pages linking to it make an appearance instead (on account of the href text containing the keywords).

This page is #1 in Google and Yahoo for the keywords, and has been (consistently) for 18 months now.

Other articles on the site, all structured the same way with the same template, but without the no-cache instruction, rank highly as they should, similarly to Google.

It seems that Bing is respecting but penalizing the no-cache attribute?

The obvious thing to try is removing the no-cache, but then of course I have it there for a reason. So, any other experiences?

vincevincevince

4:57 am on Jul 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I believe that WebmasterWorld uses no-cache, and I see profile pages rank reasonably well for member user names at Bing.

badbadmonkey

5:05 am on Jul 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Yeah I am less than certain about it. Investigating further I see a very low "page score" for this article in the webmaster control panel thing, so I guess I jumped to conclusions. My bad.

I am still wondering why this article has such a low page score, when other articles on the site have max scores (full bars), and if the no-cache thing has any contribution to that.