Google cache tool help

[EcommerceSite]

This link is for the Ebay Google cache - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ebay.com&strip=1

I wanted to do the same for my homepage so I switched out the urls and it worked. When I try to get a different link in there such as mysite.com/category it wont work. I know my pages are indexed. Any ideas why it wont work for other pages?

[Davenport-Tractor]

Niners52,

Should work for a fully qualified URL. I just tried it for my root domain www.davenporttractro.com as well a one of our deep product page URL www.davenporttractor.com/p-896-be-careful-plate-a-b-g-r-50-through-820-1948-1956.aspx

So I'm not sure what URL you are trying, but try and remove the http:// portion of a URL you may be inserting. This made a big difference in my experiment.

I suspect that you may not be able to use the wildcard /

[Linda-Vassily]

Is there some particular reason you want to do it that way?

If you use the URL you are interested in as a search term, you can just click on the little green down arrow next to the green URL in the SERP and choose cache; this will show you what Google has cached and when it was cached.

[EcommerceSite]

I am trying to look at the text only part, when I looked at the cache directly from search it shows the entire page. Is there a way to do text only?

[Linda-Vassily]

Yes. Once you get to the cached page, on the bottom right of the grey bar at the top is a link that says "text-only version". Click on that, and there you have it.