Link Building Update: Checking For Google Cache

Posted by Pixelhead

Here is a little Link Building update post. I recently noticed something and would like to update the information that I posted in the post Checking for Cache when Link Building.

As I frequently do when link building for clients, I often use the “site:” search phrase with the deep category links. For example, if I was looking for a medical category to submit a site in Pixelheadonline’s directory, I might put “site:http://www.pixelheadonline.com/Health_Medical/” into the Google search bar to see what pages of the medical category are cached in Google. If I am paying for a link, I do this because I don’t want to pay for a link that is not cached.

After finding a link, submitting a link, and having it listed, I will then recheck on these links periodically for a variety of reasons. Several times I went and rechecked these links, which I had found to be previously cached using the “Site:” search phrase. However, on more than one occasion, I have later pasted the url in and done a search to recheck cache, to find it has not been cached. I am wondering if this means that the Google spiders did a deep crawl and found the page, but the selected category page has not been cached by the Google Data center that I am currently accessing?

At any rate, I still use the “Site:url” search method, but I also check the cache of the page I am submitting without the “Site:url”.

Has anyone noticed a difference between the two types of search caches as well?

Written by Pixelhead on February 13th, 2008 with 10 comments.
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Steven Snell
#1. February 14th, 2008, at 3:12 AM.

I typically only do a search using site:

Pixelhead
#2. February 14th, 2008, at 3:23 PM.

I usually do as well, unless I am shelling out a good chunk of my link building budget.

Michael Johns
#3. February 15th, 2008, at 2:48 AM.

I never thought about using G cache to check the page where my links exist…or where I want a link. Thanks for giving us a heads up. I’m sure I’ve bought links in the past that weren’t cached by G. Now I know!

car parts baby-Z
#4. February 15th, 2008, at 9:22 AM.

Well, I also do “site:” search but if I want to search really deeply I’m using “site: plus inurl:” and it generates me more particular sites that I want.

Pixelhead
#5. February 15th, 2008, at 2:50 PM.

Michael, I have bought links on pages that were not cached, but only on sites that have a good reputation. But then I will conduct a mini link building session to get some one way links to those pages so they will get cached.

Car Parts- What do you mean by “inurl”? Do you just mean the url of a deeper page?

Chevy Camaro Guy
#6. February 15th, 2008, at 10:40 PM.

Never thought about doing this, I’ll definitely try it out when I get a chance

tv brackets
#7. February 18th, 2008, at 12:15 AM.

I have noticed too that one time a link will be there in the site search, while other times it does disappear. I figure it is just the data center too. It, so far, has always come back on a later search so I have never been worried.

sims cheats
#8. February 20th, 2008, at 9:41 PM.

I don’t think its the data center. G is just screwy. The results are constantly being updated and therefore are always different. I think part of the reason they do this is to keep site spammers at bay. They may even have a little randomness built into the algorithms for just this purpose. Either that or they are just programmed funky and can not give consistent results.

Mark
#9. May 14th, 2008, at 8:36 AM.

the inurl: parameter in search query refers to the fact the you are limiting the search result to what you want to appear in the URL . like if you put in the search query ” site: .com inurl: blog . here what you are trying to do is pull in the .com website with blogs in there url …

I hope this will help in further understanding… this sort of smart use of parameters gives you better filtered search results..

Mark
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1969 Camaro For Sale
#10. August 29th, 2008, at 1:22 PM.

Whenever I do directory link building I’m always torn. On one hand I want to actually build good links that will be indexed. Checking the cache of the page you’re trying to get a link on is something I only do occasionally because frankly, as often as these free directories get banned, change ownership, etc. things can change too quick and it’s almost not worth the effort to me. Also, with the Google data centers rotating data fairly frequently, you can’t expect a terribly stable result for more than a week or two.

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