Pages not cached

[azguy]

Sorry for all the questions.

I have dozens of article pages that are not cached by google. How can I get them cached?

[Bevelwise]

I would ensure that you have submitted an .xml sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools that includes those article pages.  That will help.  Also if you make an HTML sitemap on your website and include links to those article pages that will also help.

Also depending on how your site architecture is setup affects how Google crawls your website.  Are those article pages 2-3 clicks away from the website?  Are all the links crawl-able html?

[RyanKent]

Are the pages currently indexed? If not, then the advice Bevelwise offered could help.

If the pages are appearing in the index, then the steps Bevelwise suggested would not benefit you. Normally Google will cache the pages. Any chance these pages have a meta tag set to disable caching?

[azguy]

I have a link off my homepage to my main article directory page. On that page is about a dozen or more category links. Click on a category, and then you have links to all the articles in that category So that's what, one click off homepage, second click on category, third click on actual article.

[azguy]

It's weird. When I take some specific copy and insert it in google, the article comes up, but then when I click the "cached" link it doesn't show a cache. What's that?

[RyanKent]

If I understand you correctly, the pages in question appear in Google results and show a cache link, but when you click the cache link nothing happens? or a blank page appears?

[azguy]

Kind of, it doesn't show a cache date.

[RyanKent]

Your site is being properly indexed, your pages are appearing as expected in Google SERPs and you see the cached pages but you do not see the header at the top of the cached pages which says "This is Google's cache of [url]. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on [date]".

Is the above an accurate description of what you are seeing?