Google Cache Date Reverted - Anyone Seen This Before?
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Yesterday I was checking the cache date of page of a client. Today the snapshot date has been reversed/reverted.
Yesterday it displayed "It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 19 Apr 2013" whereas today it reads "It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 4 Apr 2013".
Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Phil
I don't know that I've seen this exact issue before, but I've seen similar situations recently as well. I almost wonder if this could have to do with what data center you happen to be hitting, or if perhaps just in their database for some reason they push back to a prior index. Or you could be seeing part of test in one of those instances.
You could try asking others to check the cache from different places geographically. Have you also tried different browsers? I know some of that could be a stretch, but testing all variables can't hurt.
End of the day, I don't think this is a huge issue if Googlebot crawls the site at a healthy rate. So I'd run through webmaster tools etc and make sure crawl depth is where it should be.
-Dan
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I got exactly the same today!
It has been reverted for almost 3 weeks.
The weird thing is.. There are url's in the index that have a 301 to a new url but they still keep the old url in the index.
Ever seen that before as well?
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