Website not getting Cached

[Red devil]

Our website is yet to get cached by Google even though it was launced on August 15th.
could this code be the reason for it not getting cached?

<meta http-equiv=cache-control content=no-cache>
<meta http-equiv=pragma content=no-cache>

also currently we r not using this code:

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

is this code absolutely necessary for Google to index our site?

[skysoldier]

If you want your site to be indexed faster, you must link with the one related with your site and already crawled by SE's spiders, it is more advisable to link to the quality related sites for your site to be indexed faster.

I think you may put the code<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

[StarLab]

I would add the <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> line.

Also check to see if you have a "robots.txt" file in your web root. If so open it and verify that none of your key site directories have been "disallowed"

I believe the "no-cache" statements as you described above only pertains to browsers. It simply tells the browser to always request the page from the server rather than your local cache. It's the equivalent of a hard refresh each time you hit the page. I don't think it has anything to do with searchbots. (Please correct me if I am wrong)

HTH

[Cricket]

Y'all are kidding right? The default behavior is for search engines to index your pages and follow your links. Why would you add unnecessary code to tell the search engines to do what they do automatically?

Get rid of the no cache directions, you don't need them either, but the following is what prevents Google from caching your pages if needed.

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35306

Just get some quality incoming links and you will be fine.

[StarLab]

Originally Posted by Cricket

Y'all are kidding right? The default behavior is for search engines to index your pages and follow your links. Why would you add unnecessary code to tell the search engines to do what they do automatically?

You're right. But does it hurt to have it there anyway? Over the years I have just formed a habit of including it.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by StarLab

You're right. But does it hurt to have it there anyway? Over the years I have just formed a habit of including it.

Makes the search engines wade through code that they don't need to is all.


P.S. Why not use robots.txt to handle your entire site instead of adding unnecessary code to every page?

[StarLab]

Originally Posted by Cricket

Makes the search engines wade through code that they don't need to is all.


P.S. Why not use robots.txt to handle your entire site instead of adding unnecessary code to every page?

Now this the exact reason why I joined this forum! Why have I never considered that?

[Red devil]

Hi All,

thanks for the info...but i think the problem has something to do with the redirection code...well here how it goes..

Oiginally the domain was www.2bhk.com, now we hav redirected it to www.makaan.com and this is the code that we have used in the config.php file for redirection - i dont know if this is the problem:

if(strstr($INVALID_HOSTS_STRING,strtolower("|$HTTP _HOST|")))
{
header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: www.makaan.com".strtolower($REQUEST_URI));
exit;
}

if you wud see - www.2bhk.com is getting cached by Google but www.makaan.com is not!

yes i hav submitted the site to Google but the not the site map,

do let know if u can figure out the problem.
Many Thanks.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by Red devil

Hi All,

thanks for the info...but i think the problem has something to do with the redirection code...well here how it goes..

Oiginally the domain was www.2bhk.com, now we hav redirected it to www.makaan.com and this is the code that we have used in the config.php file for redirection - i dont know if this is the problem:

if(strstr($INVALID_HOSTS_STRING,strtolower("|$HTTP _HOST|")))
{
header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: www.makaan.com".strtolower($REQUEST_URI));
exit;
}

if you wud see - www.2bhk.com is getting cached by Google but www.makaan.com is not!

yes i hav submitted the site to Google but the not the site map,

do let know if u can figure out the problem.
Many Thanks.

Problem is you are using a 302 redirect, telling Google that it is a temporary move, so they are not going to index both of them. You need to use a 301 permanent redirect.

HTTP/1.1 302 Found =>
Date => Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:44:03 GMT
Server => Apache
Accept-Ranges => bytes
Status => 301 Moved Permanently
Location => http://www.makaan.com/
Content-Length => 0
Connection => close
Content-Type => text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

[Red devil]

yup it is the 302 problem....thanks for that...

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by Red devil

Our website is yet to get cached by Google even though it was launced on August 15th.
could this code be the reason for it not getting cached?

<meta http-equiv=cache-control content=no-cache>
<meta http-equiv=pragma content=no-cache>

also currently we r not using this code:

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

is this code absolutely necessary for Google to index our site?

Not neccessary.... Updating contents is the key... The SE will crawl your site because they love fresh contents it is their food...

[Cricket]

Is there an echo in here?

[Cricket]

Issue solved, so closing this thread.