If a website is cached, does it mean that it has been indexed too?    In this snapshot cache date is shown as 18th may but when i did site search for this domain I found 0 pages were indexed by google last week.
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My website's google cache copy looks broken.   Below is link to cache.  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://paintcollar.com  Can this affect the SERPs and crawling by google?  What can I do to rectify it?  PS. Few pages are being cached properly though.Below is URL to one such page. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://paintcollar.com/aneel
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Me and a friend are having a debate where she claims that every and all subdomains will get crawled/indexed by google unless you specifically tell it not to, and I'm saying that if a page isn't linked to from anywhere then it shouldn't get crawled.  For example, let's say I own example.com and I make a new subdomain with a weird  random name such as adayinthewoods.example.com and I throw a wordpress installation on there that I plan to use for testing purposes.  What would have to happen for google to start crawling and indexing this? Is google going to look at the whois records and see that I've added a subdomain in my DNS table and then start crawling it as a result? Is the fact I've installed wordpress on it making my installation "ping search engines"? How does that work? How do top level domains get crawled when it's a brand new domain? I assume the mechanism there is different from random subdomains.  What if I add a new page in my root folder called "noOneWillEverSeeThis.html", could that ever get crawled/indexed if it wasn't included in any sitemap and wasn't linked to from anywhere?  Would really appreciate a solid answer from someone that understands what's going on with this.  Thanks much
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Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed.  I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find the entries on google when I query the entry name, (e.g "relaxacion.com musica para dormir bebes" shows at the bottom of search results first page)  Is there any problem with my wordpress setup?
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On my new site all works fine so far, except that when I try to clear cache (e.g. class cache or table cache or just flush all caches) from the UI. I sometimes get an error about exhausted memory (64M on production, 128M on test site).  Are there any alternatives to clearing cache from the UI? Can I just delete all records from the database tables starting with "cache" and obtain the same result?
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I recently registered a new domain, pointed it to my existing server, and set up a minimal page just saying "test" and nothing else.  I just discovered tonight that the page is already indexed in Google! There are no links to the site (I haven't even told anyone about the domain since I haven't done anything with it yet).  Is Google trawling WHOIS records or something?
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This is a general, community wiki  question and answer pair intended to address any questions   concerning the reasons a site or specific site contents do not appear   in search engine results.      If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you   feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient   answer, please open a discussion on .   My site (or specific pages on my site) is not appearing in search engine results.  Why isn't my content indexed and what can I do about it?
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I've noticed a strange little issue, which is most likely related to caching.  When I'm on the homepage of a Stack Exchange site (not on Stack Overflow), it would occationally tell me that there's new activity, and that I should click the banner to update:    When clicked:    However, when I refresh the page, I still get the outdated, cached version of the page for several minutes.      If the information about an update is available, shouldn't that invalidate the cache? I mean, the server knows for sure that there's new content available...
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I've been using the following line in the &lt;head&gt; of my sites for years:  &lt;meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days" /&gt;  I recently discovered that it's not one of  that Google understands, which I take to mean that there's no point in including it, and that it's been doing no good at all for years.  How often do search engines crawl a website by default, and what reliable ways are there to increase or decrease that frequency?
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What does it mean for a site to have fulfilled next to its name in the ?  The reason I ask is that I moderate Genealogy &amp; Family History and noticed that it is the only site of about a hundred which is "tagged" in that way.
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I have done major updates to my website, and renamed all my URLs.  How can I tell Google that I have renamed these URLs and let Google refresh its index?  My website URL: http://www.pndmasr.com/  My sitemap: http://www.pndmasr.com/sitemap.xml  I have uploaded my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools many times.  However, every time I search Google for "pndmasr", I still get results with old pages. I have waited more than 3 days but the problem remains. Any suggestions?  Is there a problem with my sitemap?
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For example, I  after using Google to try to find an answer. I then turned back to Google and did a search for  and it was already the first result! Similar searches also put my question on the first page, usually in the top 5!  This is insanity. Did I get lucky and post just before an indexing? Is the popularity of SO leading to Google indexing extremely frequently? Or is Jeff using some kind of crazy SEO?
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I was trying to do a search for new questions using the advanced search tags such as is:question and intags:mine. This normally works well, but today it is not showing any questions newer than 2nd June. For example, try this link which should show all questions in my tags, ordered by newest first:  http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&amp;q=intags%3amine   Has some back-end script stopped running perhaps?  Edit:  Search appears to be out-of-date for all search type (not just advanced search) and across all SE sites.  Edit: after working fine for a while, the bug is back in July 30th 2014:
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I look today on a few fresh question, and the view count was 0. Even after I refreshed the page a few time. This is definitely a bug, since the question isn't mine.  Also I don't think the all page was cached, since that the DateTime mark was change every reload.  But maybe the SQL result is cached.
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We have an eCommerce site, and we have had rich snippets implemented (in JSON-LD) since January/February this year (2015). I have read multiple sources (including the Google documentation) and there seem to be three possibilities why they are not showing:   Not enough time has passed (4-12 weeks seems to be the common time quoted) The markup is wrong Google have decided not to show the data   I can rule out the first given the amount of time. The second I am fairly confident is not the case as I have used multiple testing tools. As for the third … well that's anyone's guess (although the study  suggests that MOST shops should be successful).  A strange note is that the rich snippets do not show on a regular search for our ranking keywords (we rank #1 for a few and page 1 for the majority). However the rich snippets DO show when we search for a ranking keyword + site:www.fridgefreezerdirect.co.uk as show here:    I have done this in an incognito window in the browser and using a VPN with the same results.  Can anyone suggest anything we can do or reasons this may be?
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I have  a post I created yesterday that was indexed rather quickly by Google. However, I have two other post that I created within the past 4 days that are  not indexed and I cannot find a trace of them within the SERPs.  Any idea what my cause this to happen?
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I just visited  and for me it shows no results. Has something broken?   The problem occurs for me , but oddly not on some other sites I've tried, such as  or .   I have tried pressing Ctrl+F5 many times, but as yet no success in solving this. This has now been broken for days, leading me to believe that caching is not the culprit.  I've since noticed that the problem goes away if I add some tags as favourites (e.g. ). But I prefer to have no favourite tags, so the problem remains for me. What's odd is that I don't use favourite tags anywhere on the network, so the fact that the ServerFault and Programmers tab works for me is a mystery.
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Well, I already searched meta as well as cleared my browser cache.  I realize this may be a SO cache problem, but it still seems kind of strange to me.    The deleted question is (assuming it still exists).  Shouldn't deleted questions only be visible to 10k users?  I'm only at 2k.