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PornMD · 10-05-2009, 01:05 PM

I run a mainstream niche blog on WP and like clockwork, Google had been caching my blog homepage (which basically only shows the latest post) on each day I'd make a new post. For whatever reason, the cache date showing on the SERP has been and still is Sept 29 despite posts each weekday and yesterday having done a bunch of sitewide page changes and a new page created. The sitemap has been getting sent like it should with each post/change (I use the sitemaps plugin and Google Webmaster Tools). I have "Let Google determine my crawl rate" and it doesn't appear from the crawl data as if Google has stopped crawling the site or anything. Should I be worried that the cache date isn't updating? I didn't make any major changes on that date or anything...the changes I made yesterday were fairly major but I thought if anything that would have kick-started the caching again and it hasn't.

I'm not necessarily seeing SERPs drop yet, but usually when things are going like normal, I'll be in "Past 24 Hours" and "Past Week" page 1 on my target term and while I'm still on "Past Week" page 1, it's showing on that as my page last being updated 6 days ago. Any thoughts on what could be happening?

10-05-2009, 01:05 PM
PornMD Mainstream Businessman Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Diego Posts: 9,291	Google cache date - should I be worried if it's old for a daily-updated site? I run a mainstream niche blog on WP and like clockwork, Google had been caching my blog homepage (which basically only shows the latest post) on each day I'd make a new post. For whatever reason, the cache date showing on the SERP has been and still is Sept 29 despite posts each weekday and yesterday having done a bunch of sitewide page changes and a new page created. The sitemap has been getting sent like it should with each post/change (I use the sitemaps plugin and Google Webmaster Tools). I have "Let Google determine my crawl rate" and it doesn't appear from the crawl data as if Google has stopped crawling the site or anything. Should I be worried that the cache date isn't updating? I didn't make any major changes on that date or anything...the changes I made yesterday were fairly major but I thought if anything that would have kick-started the caching again and it hasn't. I'm not necessarily seeing SERPs drop yet, but usually when things are going like normal, I'll be in "Past 24 Hours" and "Past Week" page 1 on my target term and while I'm still on "Past Week" page 1, it's showing on that as my page last being updated 6 days ago. Any thoughts on what could be happening? __________________ Want to crush it in mainstream with Facebook ads? Hit me up. Last edited by PornMD; 10-05-2009 at 01:07 PM..