Difference between indexed and cached

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Hi,
I've been looking into some old SEO campaigns a website I'm working on paid for before I started working on it.

I can see they paid for 10 web 2.0s to be built. Of these 10, only 2 appear when you do a site: search. But, these 2 have no webcache when you do a cache: search.

So are these sites indexed and how come there's no cache, I (perhaps foolishly) thought there was a cache of everything a google bot trawled.

Thanks
#search engine optimization #cached #difference #indexed
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    • So something that is indexed won't necessary have a cached version??
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  • Crawling is something when the search engines spider come to your websites. Google crawls a site as and when it feels it should and it creates is called cached. Indexing means google collect all the details from your site and store in a big database.
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    • If you're confused about the terms just see a dictionary. Index is "a sequential arrangement of material, especially in alphabetical or numerical order". Indexing is the act of sorting and adding to that collection.

      Cache is a copy of the page that Google has saved. They may or may not have a publicly visible cache copy.
  • Indexing is Google visited your website and has added you to its database.
    Caching is basically a term used for the saving of a page's data by a search engine.
  • First of all crawl your website pages then indexed but this page or keyword which time find that is cached.
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    I have no idea what you're doing but Google can index a page before or even without caching a page.
  • Crawling- Google sends its spiders to your website.
    Indexing- Google visited your website and has added you to its database.
  • Crawling- Google sends its spiders to your website..
    Indexing- Google visited your website and has added you to its database..

    Caching- Google toook a snapshot of your website when it last visited and stored the data in case your website went down or if there are some any other issues.
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    • Great post! I was actually wondering the same thing. Good thing I found this.

      Kudos to all the answers, it pretty much cleared it up. Can I add a question?

      How do you get your site indexed? This may be an easy one, but, I'm just think it be agreat addition to this thread.

      Thanks in advance.
  • Indexing is Google visited your website and has added you to its database.Crawling is Google sends its spiders to your website.
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