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Difference between indexed and cached

by Ross02
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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
#cached #difference #indexed
  • Profile picture of the author RahulPathak
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    • Profile picture of the author Ross02
      So something that is indexed won't necessary have a cached version??
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  • Profile picture of the author Petson10
    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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  • Profile picture of the author alinajack218
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by alinajack218 View Post

      When Google bot visit your website and crawl hyperlink,its called indexing and when that result show in SERP its cache, its mean Google store that data in your database.
      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Carl Hardy
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author serman46
    First of all crawl your website pages then indexed but this page or keyword which time find that is cached.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Ross02 View Post

    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



    I have no idea what you're doing but Google can index a page before or even without caching a page.
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  • Profile picture of the author multisys353
    Crawling- Google sends its spiders to your website.
    Indexing- Google visited your website and has added you to its database.
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  • Profile picture of the author nandakumar
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Leadsupply
      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author shadandrew
    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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