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    • jacobfy
      jacobfy last edited by

      Hey Moz People,

      I'm getting a 404 when I cache: this blog post http://www.inscopix.com/blog/decoding-brain-initiative and I'm not able to see what's causing it.

      Can someone take a look and let me know if they see anything standing out?

      Thanks,

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      • David-Kley
        David-Kley last edited by

        You should login to Google Webmaster Tools and do a fetch as Google, if the page returns a status 200 then you know that your pages are working as intended and what your experiencing is just the Google cache service not working, which should resolve itself in time.

        Google Cache is not Realtime

        It's worth mentioning that the Google cache system runs independently and does not effect the real time rankings of Google and the index. So even if there is no cache, cache errors doesn't mean there is problems with your site or rankings. Simply do as suggested with the fetch as Google, once you ruled out that your pages are not at fault which I suspect they are not (Google's caching service often has problems), then its just a simple matter of putting your feet up and waiting for the Cache system to resolve this issue on its own.

        Also should check that the robots for that page is not set to be "no-archive"

        "

        • NOINDEX tag tells Google not to index a specific page
        • NOFOLLOW tag tells Google not to follow the links on a specific page
        • NOARCHIVE tag tells Google not to store a cached copy of your page
        • NOSNIPPET tag tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will also not show a cached link in the search results

        "

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