Hi guys Why would anyone want a link on a Google cached page and how do you put it there in the first place? I have had a few webmasters ask me for a link on my websites cached pages. Is this the new fad or is it just a joke..? Its sounds a bit black hat to me.
The reason for asking a link on your website's cached pages is that the presence of a web page in Google's cache indicates that the page is not banned by Google.
It isn't odd at all. They want a link in a page that has already been indexed by Google. What is wrong in that? Instead of a new post/page with a link, they want it in an existing page.
what does this mean??? can you explain clearly what are you trying to say? moreover, how can you put a backlink on a cached page?
Is this ok in Googles eyes? Or is this guy asking me to do something wrong? And is it actually possible to change anything on a cached google page anyway?
Buying a link is wrong in Google's eyes. You are not changing anything on Google's servers. You are just editing a page that is already indexed in Google. When the bot updates its cache, you'll see an updated version of the page with the link.
It's already been answered here, so I am at pain to just repeat it, but here goes on a clearer answer: (lets just say. . .) Your website has 100 pages. 70 of which are indexed (cached) in Google. If I want a link on your website, the most valuable are going to be on your indexed (cached) pages, rather than the ones not in Google's index. Why is that? Well, if my link is on pages that are not cached, then Google will never know about them, hence - no benefit to me. So. . . when they are asking for a link on cached pages, they are just asking for a link on any of the pages that show up when you type 'site:domain.com' into Google (domain.com being your domain). Nothing wrong in this, other than as @gr8liverpoolfan pointed out - It is against Google's TOS to buy links (unless they are nofollowed). HTH & sorry to you guys who have already answered this question perfectly well
Sorry to put you in such pain...but thank you for your answer. The guy was requesting a link, not buying it, and if he had said on a page that is indexed with google then it would have been clearer. I do see the benefit of putting a link on a page that is indexed but when the guy said cached pages I automatically thought that was a snapshot of the recent past.