| Meaning of Google's Cache Date | gardener | 6/25/09 5:47 AM | I just looked at Google's cached page of a search result, and at the top it said 'this is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Apr. 28, 2009" Does this mean that Google's robot hasn't crawled this particular page since Apr. 28? If so, isn't thi |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | MissHepburn | 6/25/09 5:54 AM | You may think that the page hasn't change, but all my pages are recached on a regular basis and they do not change. So, have you made changes to the page, cause looks like google doesn't like it anymore. |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | Autocrat | 6/25/09 6:06 AM | Yes/No. The Cache date is the last time that Google Crawled and took a copy. If you look through your logs - you may see the bot hit that page after that date. (At least, that seems to be the case?) . Remember there is often a gap between being cr |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | MissHepburn | 6/25/09 6:13 AM | Quickest way to find out, change your meta desciption, if it doesn't update in a keyword search then you could have issues. We find this a valuable way of checking there isn't something wrong with a page not being indexed. |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | gardener | 6/25/09 6:23 AM | Thanks for the replies. Actually, this page isn't part of my site, so I can't check the logs or anything. I was just wondering why it's been almost two months since the cache date. Does it mean that Google noticed that the page hasn't changed in a lo |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | Robbo | 6/25/09 6:52 AM | Gardener, Please stop beating about the bush! Just tell us the URL of the page in question otherwise we are groping in the dark! :-) |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | cristina | 6/25/09 7:13 AM | It is difficult to know exactly what the cached date you see means. You are looking at only one Google datacenter, other people might see the cache presented to them from another Google datacenter, the site might have geo-targetting settings, that co |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | gardener | 6/25/09 10:41 AM | Okay, here is the URL of Google's cache of the page, if anyone wants to look at it. Thank you http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:22woBoFIgQYJ:www.treetrail.net/georgia_plume.html+georgia+plume&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | christiannegordon | 11/3/09 10:31 AM | I have a question. I am trying to figure out how often Google crawls my site because it varies widely. I've been tracking the cache date. Yesterday my cache said it was 10/30, but today it says 10/21. Why does it revert backwards like that? |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | Ashley | 11/3/09 11:27 AM | Christian - you really need to start a new thread. |
| Re: Meaning of Google's Cache Date | christiannegordon | 11/3/09 11:50 AM | Thanks Ashley - I'll do that now. I didn't want to get in trouble for starting a thread that was already being discussed as I'm new here :-) |