I am seeing some real problems with google and their index. I want to show you one example, but I have plenty of others. This is quite bizarre. Problem one (mild): This example is for www.golfexerciseprogram.com. The info: and cache: do not work at all for this site. However if you do a google search on 'golf exercise program' you will find this site's home page listed on PAGE TWO. And indeed at that point I can click on the CACHE link and see it is cached. I see this problem for quite a few sites URLs. Problem Two (serious): The other problem that is occurring is that you can do an info: (not the above cited sites, but others I do not wish to reveal publicly) but there is no cached link yet it shows the URL and the description snippet. The cache: does not show up and indeed a site: command search on the top-tier domain for specific keywords on the problematic page show that page as not even indexed at all, yet it appears with the info: command as if indexed. This second problem occurred when there was a 48 hour window where the pages loaded with an access denied error over a month ago. Upon further investigation into other similar (competitor) sites I see this problem is not site specific. It takes quite a bit of data mining to find this second problem and patience, which I have in finding the problem but am running out in the fact google seems either unaware of this problem or not really concerned with addressing it (or both). For the second problem, I can PM specific examples to trusted sources as I do not wish to reveal the site or the competitors sites in a public forum. Perhaps all serious site owners / SEO people should investigate top level domain and inner pages for similar patterns. It seems to often be related to if the site ever had any downtime or errors produced and Google is choking on how to re-index these pages once the site is back to health. I was frustrated enough with Google to post this, abeit quite hesitant. Thanks for listening.
Problem one- nothing to worry about. Google doesn't update their cache or info commands for every website on a continual basis. Get a few thousand backlinks, and the problem is solved. Problem two- If the error occurred two months ago, why bring it up now? Try posting a few examples for the second problem, I didn't get a clear idea on what you were trying to explain
Just keep on updating your site with new and better content. If it is good then google wont let that site go unnoticed.
there is a definite delay between when google actually includes a site in the index and when it shows you the cache of that page. Often a website will show its updated version in the SERP's - ie: title, meta description and yet the cached version reported by the SERP link cache:, are different .. interesting but certainly nothing to worry about. increase inbound links and pagerank and the scanning time between googlebot visits to your site decreases .. gl
For problem two the site is quite established receiving 1000's of google hits a day. Just not for the dozen or so pages that produced an HTML page, but with an error (ie, content was missing and was only for 48 hours before I fixed it). The site does really well with its own community of users that is growing as well as all 3 SE's sending 87% of the traffic my way. But google has definitely an issue and since I don't want to reveal the site in question to the public (but will to the proper people privately) not much can be done until I get some people in the field who read this to contact me.
That is a pretty bad response. You obviously haven't read my posts carefully (or the others with the same response). The site has on average, 3000 words of new content added weekly and see's 60,000 unique visitors a month with 250,000 page views. This isn't you 50 page view a day site and the competitors with similar problems aren't either.