Oddness: Google Cache Corrupted?

Discussion in 'Reviews' started by thundercow, Feb 9, 2009.

  1. #1
    I am getting some decent rankings on this site: austin-pool-builders[dot]com, but something completely bizarre is going on with the Google cache that I haven't seen before. I am writing this on Feb 9, 09, so this condition may not exist in the future.

    If you do a google index inquiry by typing:

    site:http://www.austin-pool-builders.com

    and then click "repeat with the omitted search results included", you'll see these three inner pages represented in this way, with no titles and no descriptions (that alone I have never seen):

    www.austin-pool-builders.com/index.php - 2 visits - 11:34am
    1k - Cached - Similar pages -
    www.austin-pool-builders.com/links.php
    1k - Cached - Similar pages -
    www.austin-pool-builders.com/swimming-pool-ph.php - 11:31am
    1k - Cached - Similar pages -

    Then it gets even weirder. If you click on the "cached" link for that last link in the list, The page loops and sort of blinks as if it is trying to refresh (read on for more on this). If you "view source" to see the code that google is displaying in the cached page, you see this:

    <!-- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> -->
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
    <TITLE></TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY></body>
    </HTML>

    This is NOT the actual code from the original page, google's cache is storing the information incorrectly, or google is rewriting it. That Meta Refresh tag in this code is causing the page to try and refresh immediately and infinitely. For starters, I'd like those pages to be cached and indexed.

    Any ideas on this weirdness?
     
    thundercow, Feb 9, 2009 IP