Cached of live version for ranking

[seoanalytics]

Hello,

Is google using the cached version of the live version for ranking a website (if those are different)

Thank you,

[Andrew-SEO]

As far as I am aware google searches through it's index using the cached versions of the pages. Once the page is found it will display the most recent version.

This is were having a website structure that promotes more regular crawling is important. Try not to waste your crawl budget on useless pages. Make your website lean and don't have internal redirect chains. Use nofollow to stop bots entering pages that have no value in the serps. Regularly update your sitemap.xml.

You can also use the 'fetch' facility in search console to notify google if an important page has been updated.

[seoanalytics]

Thank you,