hii guys im a little confused over these two terms indexed and cached can anybody let me know...about them.... one more thing "site://http://domain.com" query in google fetches what no of pages indexed or cached??? I need to have more 100 pages Cached in google for my new blog any ideas for this??
The site: query will return all pages that Google has indexed. Google might have indexed a page, but they may not have cached the page. Indexed means that they've seen it and have listed in their search results. Cached means that they've saved a copy of it on their servers. You will see a "Cache" link under any Indexed posts that have been cached. Google will typically cache a page for as long as the page's content is good - which can be defined in your sitemap, listed as "change frequency". Then, they know when to come back and re-crawl and re-cache that page.
Change frequency is an "optional" tag in your XML sitemap, and doesn't mean search engines will take that information into consideration. I never use the optional tags in my XML sitemap, it helps stay under the max. file size amount and allow more URLs into the sitemap itself. (http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php#faq_sitemap_size) Right from: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
thanks Martindale and ssandecki thanks for the info ...is there any query by which I find out directly the no pages google has cached??? any tips for getting pages cached are welcomed tooo
any tips how to get pages cached fast.....I mean within 3 hours or so Of new posting... currently all updates of my blog takes 4 hours to show...up any help plz....
The SE bots crawl my site on a regular basis, the pages are indexed and cached. As soon as I update my site with new information, I republish the site and the results show immediately. I just check my site on the SEs, and find my updated pages are there. I ping regularly, too.
what are the sites do you ping to??? do u do it manually or by automation?? "I just check my site on the SEs" ?? didnt get this one either ??