I see this sometimes in the search results. What does it mean?

Discussion in 'Google' started by acuman, Feb 6, 2010.

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    I don't see it often, but sometimes I perform a search in Google and in the results, next to the domain name I would see "6 hours ago". Sometimes even "17 minutes ago".

    Does it mean the last time the site was cached?

    Is there a benefit to having it say that?

    What can I do to take advantage of it to improve my rankings even more?

    Here is an example of what I am talking about. I hope you can see what I mean even though I blocked out everything around it.

    http://screencast.com/t/NGE1YjgxN

    Thanks!
     
    acuman, Feb 6, 2010 IP
  2. rehash

    rehash Well-Known Member

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    generally it's used for news sites/blogs
    it means it's new content
     
    rehash, Feb 6, 2010 IP
  3. acuman

    acuman Active Member

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    #3
    OK. But this site is not a news site and homepage content is hardly changed at all.
     
    acuman, Feb 6, 2010 IP
  4. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    Yeah, its the time of the content published..
     
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  5. charroseo

    charroseo Peon

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    Yeah, a lot of times this tag is for new sites, when Google just found and index the site, but also I have seen this tag on very popular sites, for example search for
    snow storm usa
    and you will see usatoday.com as #1 with the tag "1 hour ago" so this means that Google visit and crawle the site just 1 hour ago, so this page has fresh news about the storm
     
    charroseo, Feb 6, 2010 IP