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critter
09-13-2005, 05:27 AM
Hello All,
It is my understanding that when you implement a no cache in the META information, you are telling the search engines not to re-cache that particular page as often.
Is this bad to implement - as I might need to for tracking purposes?
Just curious the potential side effects of implementing this code on our homepage (which ranks VERY HIGH).
Cheers
CRITTER
martinuboo
09-14-2005, 07:19 AM
It is my understanding that when you implement a no cache in the META information, you are telling the search engines not to re-cache that particular page as often.
No, you are telling the SE NOT to cache you page at all.
http://www.google.com/remove.html#uncache
Google automatically takes a "snapshot" of each page it crawls and archives it. This "cached" version allows a webpage to be retrieved for your end users if the original page is ever unavailable (due to temporary failure of the page's web server). The cached page appears to users exactly as it looked when Google last crawled it, and we display a message at the top of the page to indicate that it's a cached version. Users can access the cached version by choosing the "Cached" link on the search results page.
To prevent all search engines from showing a "Cached" link for your site, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
To allow other search engines to show a "Cached" link, preventing only Google from displaying one, use the following tag:
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
Note: this tag only removes the "Cached" link for the page. Google will continue to index the page and display a snippet
martin
seomike
09-14-2005, 11:28 AM
nocache and noarchive will not affect your search engine rankings.
This is just to allow you to keep your cache private and not for public eyes.
Just don't use the noindex! That will affect rankings and block bots. ;)