google not cacheing site

[mfcopier]

I need some help or advise

About seven years ago when set our web site up we linked to a link farm as did probably thousands of other sites,we now of course regret this

Could someone please tell me how to find out why my site is not being cached by google

We have a pr of zero we got rid of all the links about two 3 years ago is there any way to get google to forgive

www.inkjetcartridgesuk.com

Help please :(

Garry

[Cyberskull]

Your site is cached within Google. One thing you may want to do which may get your site spidered a little more then usual is maybe change the entire design of your website and keep updating the home page with new information.

Good luck.

[mfcopier]

yes if you do a search in google it is available

But if you look google has not got a cache of the site

Garry

[Cyberskull]

The pages which you see within the index that do not have any description or that are not cached are kind of normal. We are seeing this happen more and more, I have personally seen even Google.com have non-cached pages.

There are two logical explanations to why this occurs, first either you are doing something wrong or second there's something wrong with Google and its having a hard time saving all the necessary information into their database.

My 2 cents.

[mfcopier]

Yes but its been nearly 6 months??

[Cyberskull]

What I would do in your case is first redo the design becuase it really looks like it's out of date anyway.

While redoing the design I would structure my links better then they already are, provide the bot with a better way of crawling my site.

Believe it or not that WILL help!

[mfcopier]

Out of date?

Its a new site and is updated daily with new products???

[Cyberskull]

The pages which are showing as not cached all seem to be your old design:

Your Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2005-08%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=site%3Awww.inkjetcartridgesuk.com+www)

Also another thing I noticed was your homepage is not cached, this is something that has been happening to sites but unfortunately we don't know why.

What you may want to do with the pages that are not cached and that are your old design is take them out of the index via a 301 redirect and maybe create some new pages that have the same information.

My 2 cents.

[Michael Martinez]

Out of date?

Its a new site and is updated daily with new products???'

Get rid of your 1x1 images. Google may have tagged them as search engine spam.

Place your Javascript in an external template file. Better yet, it appears you are using the Javascript to place your readable text on your page. If that is really what you are doing, then that is your most serious problem. Google cannot crawl the text unless it is clearly and directly embedded on your page (not in comment tags or in any way hidden -- it needs to be human-visible text).

Although Javascript appears to be a cool method for updating content without having to update HTML pages, you are not saving yourself that much effort and you ARE killing your rankings in the search engines.

Trust me. I've tried this. Didn't work. No one is (yet) spidering the Javascript.

[Cyberskull]

Get rid of your 1x1 images. Google may have tagged them as search engine spam.

I have never seen or heard of this before, have you tested this theory or have anything we can read up on about someone testing it.

Thanks.

[Michael Martinez]

I have never seen or heard of this before, have you tested this theory or have anything we can read up on about someone testing it.

Thanks.

1x1 spam was popular about four years ago. Maybe three years ago people started reporting loss of rankings and, after taking the 1x1 images off their sites, their rankings came back.

That is the best I'll be able to provide you with. It is all anecdotal based. But it looks to me like you've jumped into spam-mode.

My advice is to remove everything from your page that your visitors won't see, which you put there specifically to help your rankings. The search engines have been on to a lot of these tricks for years.

[Cyberskull]

I had no idea that was the case, weird stuff.

A while back I used the 1x1 image takes for padding. The image wasn't actually 1x1 more like 1x10 or something like that.

Thanks for the great tip :)

[AccuraCast]

1x1 images used solely as a spacer should not be a problem. However, if you add Alt text to it, that will definitely get counted as a spam point. Ditto for blank images.