I am being asked by some link exchange partners whether I have my linking pages in Google's cache so that they place a link. How does this actually matter? I haven't come across anything suggesting its importance in the Google webmaster central yet. Anybody?
Well, I can not speak for them, but just a little while ago I was looking for something on Google, found the page, the page was dead, so I checked out it's Cache... found a link to more information, and clicked on through. They could be asking, because they fear your site going under (even if remotely) *shrug* Though, maybe they mean Indexed?
Well, you may be right perhaps. Still one question remains unanswered: having a page in google's cache even before a link is placed will not help, though. Secondly, assuming that the site has gone under shrug, neither will Google's robot crawls the page next time nor will its engine return that page in its SERP!
Yeah, good points... then I'll go back to saying, maybe they were thinking indexed (in hopes that your site is known by google)... but then, we'll never know unless we ask the people that asked. I'd like to know their answer anyway