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Google Not Caching My Homepage

by gearmonkey
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Man this has been a rough year for my site. First I was hit hard by the farmer update, even though my content is extremely high quality and 100% unique. I am getting feedburner subscribers daily.

Now, after I lost 600 daily visitors starting April 12th, I thought it was another update or good weather distractions to web users... Turns out the last time my homepage shows up in google is on April 12th.

But I just found out today that my homepage isn't cached in Google. My site is almost 4 years old, I update the content almost daily or more. And it use to cache about every 1hr on average. So this is a HUGE red flag.

I'm not sure if it's a on site issue, or if Google hates me... But man am I feeling like crap after all the lumps I've taken. I'm trying to do everything right.

My site is wordpress and use a Revolution (Studio Press theme) and have Hostgator VPS hosting.

Any ideas what I can do?
#caching #google #homepage
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Is the site, the link in your sig?

    If so your site is down!

    [edit]
    It was down, now it's back up.

    Here is the page when it was down.

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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    No. It's gear-vault.com

    The internal server error is caused from me doing mass bookmarking. Hostgator recommends I upgrade my VPS to their $200/mo dedicated server package. I can't afford that service.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Why are you blocking the Google Bot, in your gear-vault[.]com/robots.txt & how long has that robots.txt been like that?

    I don't see a Google cache for any of your sites/pages.

    User-agent: Adsbot-Google
    Disallow:

    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow:

    User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
    Disallow:
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    I don't know, and I don't know how long it's been like that. Probably over a year. The site was shown on April 12th 2011 in Google.

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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      That screenshot could be very misleading.

      The reason I say this is, it is possible to block Google from your site (even If you didn't want to block them), & they can still index a page from a backdoor link (example: feed, twitter, facebook, etc...). If another link on the web points to a page that is blocked via robots.txt sometimes Google will follow that link. I bet they picked up the WP-feed.

      [Google Source]
      While Google won't crawl or index the content of pages blocked by robots.txt, we may still index the URLs if we find them on other pages on the web
      I bet your running a WP-robots.txt plugin on that site (am I right), If so check the settings in your WP-Admin.






      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      I don't know, and I don't know how long it's been like that. Probably over a year. The site was shown on April 12th 2011 in Google.

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  • Profile picture of the author crismanaon
    Also I have created same problems but my inner pages not cached by Google still we not find excet problems, why do so occurs, now I want your opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    So are you saying I was screwing myself the past year because that code was in my robot.txt file?

    I removed this from my robot.txt file:
    User-agent: Adsbot-Google
    Disallow:

    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow:

    User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
    Disallow:
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      I don't know about a year, I'm just telling you what's in your robots.txt.

      If it was me, since you've already changed the robots.txt, I would build a couple of new blog pages, then build a couple of new quality links to get Google back to your site to update the SERPs.

      Sometimes Google won't cache right away, even If they update the SERP Title/Description. The SERP tends to be faster than the Google Cache at updates, still it shouldn't be very much longer If both don't update at the same time.




      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      So are you saying I was screwing myself the past year because that code was in my robot.txt file?

      I removed this from my robot.txt file:
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Thanks for your help. I'm crossing my fingers that this is the solution to all my Google SERPS problems. Just a few months ago I was dominating in Google, since the farmer update everything fell apart. Maybe the new update enforced the disallow googlebot on a different level.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Your welcome,

      I'm not sure If this is all the answers to your SERP ranking, but it can only help.

      Post here again when you get cached, let us know how it works out...


      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      Thanks for your help. I'm crossing my fingers that this is the solution to all my Google SERPS problems. Just a few months ago I was dominating in Google, since the farmer update everything fell apart. Maybe the new update enforced the disallow googlebot on a different level.
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