Google Cache Just Got Older?

[Norex_Matt]

Hi All,
This is my first post here after being directed from getting the DevWebPro newsletters going back a long time. I've been performing some SEO for free for a client as I learn the SEO ropes, I have been a site designer / programmer for a good many years. He had an existing site in Google with a low page rank for a year at the same URL, the new site was put up about a month ago and when searching Google this week finally the new site had been indexed and is crawled by Googlebot every 2 days or so and was coming up in searches optimized for the new keywords. However today it seems like the google cache has switched back to that of the old site and it is no longer coming up in the new searches. I'm not using any tactics that would cause us to be penalized, etc. Has anyone ever seen this happen before? Thanks for any advice, (Also I used googlecheck.com to verify I wasn't just hitting an old datacenter, it seems like all of them are using the old cache now).

Cheers,
Matt Rudderham

[JMac]

Hi Matt,

I've heard this one as well as experienced it - I have ideas about what causes it but then, so does everyone...
As frustrating as it is, wait a couple of days and all should be well.
I've noticed this kind of thing happens a couple of days after the last of my clients' sites has been indexed so my own opinion is that they temporarily revert to an older cache while they update the datacenter. (This doesn't explain why I can find the site from one computer and moments later, from another computer, not be able to find the site at all. Maybe they direct to one database or another based on platform, too. I don't get the same results on my Mac as on a PC.)

So, I just accept that all will be well in a day or two - believe me, I didn't feel that way the first couple of times!

Good luck and have a great day!

JMac

[Norex_Matt]

Thanks JMac! It just came back online today with a version from Oct. 12th in its cache. The site is a pretty big online store with about 1600 products in categories, I have the robots follow direct in the meta tags and everything linked directly to the categories from the main page however Google doesn't seem to be indexing the categories yet, will this just take time?

Thanks for the advice!