Pages not being cached have a negative effect?

[thisisOllie]

Hi all!

I look after a website where it's been discovered a section of the website has the noarchive robots meta tag active on it causing it to not get cached but has been indexed.

Out of curiosity has anyone seen any negative effects from Google for having pages that aren't cached? It's not the strongest section on the website so makes it tricky to judge myself but interested if anyone had any thoughts on the matter.

Cheers,

[Cyrus-Shepard]

I'm not aware of this ever being a ranking factor. There are more than a few high-profile sites that use the noarchive tag, generally because their content changes quickly.

Google even gives instructions how to use it, so it's likely okay.

That said, we should consider adding this to our list of ranking factors