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guys, i noticed my site from MSN that it was cached last august 20. what does it mean by cached?:eek:

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Thread context: reported an "MSN cached Aug 20" message and gave the basic explanation. Below are practical checks and actions that explain what that snapshot means in practice and how to get a fresher snapshot or remove an old one.

Check what the engine actually saw. Pull the cached snapshot from the search engine and compare it to the live page. Review server logs for hits from the search engine crawler (msnbot / bingbot) around that date and note the HTTP response code returned then. Confirm robots.txt and any meta tags (noindex / noarchive) were not blocking resources or the whole page at the time of the crawl. Also check whether a redirect, canonical tag, or a server error was in place then — those change what gets stored.

Make changes that speed re-crawling and control cache content. Submit or refresh an XML sitemap in webmaster tools and use the engine’s URL-inspection / request-indexing facility to ask for a re-fetch. Ensure the page returns a clean 200 response when updated, include reasonable Last-Modified/ETag headers, and avoid hiding important content behind JavaScript-only rendering (server-side render or pre-render if needed). To prevent future caching, add a noarchive meta tag; to remove an existing cache quickly, serve a 404/410 for the URL or use the search engine’s removal tool.

A few caveats: re-crawl timing varies by site and engine, cached snapshots can persist after content is removed, and cached views may omit CSS/JS-loaded content. Short checklist: view cached snapshot, check crawler log entries and response codes, verify robots/meta and canonical settings, submit sitemap / request indexing, and adjust headers or rendering so the crawler sees the intended content.

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Catched means the copy of your site which is kept at search engine's servers and on the basis of which your site is displayed in search engine results........

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Catched means the copy of your site which is kept at search engine's servers and on the basis of which your site is displayed in search engine results........

does anyone know how long a server's search engine keep a copy of a site? 'cause i've been optimizing my site.

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does anyone know how long a server's search engine keep a copy of a site? 'cause i've been optimizing my site.

Well search engine's server keep the copy of the site until its spiders find out the updated site....... This depends on the no. of backlinks and how frequently you update your site..... Just keep on updating and new site will be in the search engine's cache soon.....

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