I bought a domain (4 years old) a month ago. I transferred the domain to my server, changed the nameservers, uploaded new content. The site was parked for 4 years. I've done this 10-14 days ago. My problem is that google is not cacheing the new content. In the search engine it still shows the old meta tags and the old content. Yahoo is showing the new meta tags. I already get visits from there. I am indexed in google. In google webmasters/settings I see this message: Your site has been assigned special crawl rate settings. You will not be able to change the crawl rate. I'm sure I haven't changed anything here. All my other sites have other settings here. What should I do?
I recommend you submitting your domain to a few social bookmarks like digg.com It will take effect in 24 hours tested many and many times by myself
as your site was "assigned special crawl rate settings" while it was parked (crawl once in a blue moon), may be worth doing a reconsideration request to let google know the site is now active, although gaining new backlinks may well do the trick alone, and once they crawl it their system will probably pick it up ok.
The problem is that I already have backlinks and submitted my site to over 30 social bookmarking sites + I pinge my rss feed
put a pagerank 5 link to it, look how I do to get cached in 48 hours I do 100 social bookmarking then I put a pr 5 backlink and wait 48 hours always it worked
10-14 days? you're expecting too much too quickly. After a domain has sat dormant for 4 years, your site will have a very low priority for being revisited. Use your webmaster tools to change the crawl rate, create an XML sitemap and submit, get a couple of fresh links, and i'm guessing another two weeks should do it. Also, double check that google isnt pulling your description from dmoz, and not your current site. As a matter of course you should update you dmoz entry anyway, if it has one.
As mentioned add the site to social bookmarkings. When I add a new joke and the site is being hit by stumbleupon the folowing day it is listed in google.
You shouldn't have to worry in it. IT will be indexed somehow in a week. If not, submit it in Google Submit URL or use social bookmarking.
If this is park for 4 years than this will take more time to get cached or there may be chances that google banned this domain. Just wait for few days if you see same situation than submit to google for reconsider.
As others have said, just wait and build more backlinks. Google will cache it, you just have to give it time. If it goes on much longer, check as others have said to see if the domain is banned.
OK so you have done the usual things and it has not helped. The only way you will get better answers is to tell us the sites URL to see if someone can spot something wrong. Without knowing that we can only suggest the common things to do.
I see google already updating the cache. The meta tags are still unchanged but I guess I have to wait just for a few more days. Thank you guys for helping
it wont update the page and not the metas. Unless of course you mean returned description inthe index? this could well be coming from dmoz as i said earlier.
Right my new site went live 1 week ago and I got cached within 24 hrs on a brand new domain, no pr, no alexa, basiclly new site and domain from stratch! Heres how: Sig links from forums Digg Stumble Upon Mister Wong CSS Design sites - i.e cssbased (google it for url) Yahoo answers Yedda Sitemaps to webmaster tools Google Analytics Submit to Yahoo Submit to MSN Submit to Ask Sorted! - in 1 week ive had 200 visitors, 10 pages now cached and I'm ranked number one for a niche term! All that just from the above.
This is normal in adding a new site, just get to your link building ASAP. keep adding content, the more frequently you add your content, the more google will crawl, index and cache your site. We get cached 3times a day and our new content is added to the search engine in 30mins. Tops!!! Remember, Backlinks and new Content!! industry finest