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theLotter last edited by

I launched a new website ~2 weeks ago that seems to be indexed but not cached.

According to Google Webmaster most of the pages are indexed and I see them appear when I search site:www.xxx.com.

However, when I type into the URL - cache:www.xxx.com I get a 404 error page from Google.
I've checked more established websites and they are cached so I know I am checking correctly here...

Why would my site be indexed but not in the cache?
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BlueprintMarketing last edited by

Check your source code for a no archive tag

what to look for

http://searchengineland.com/google-explains-the-noindex-nofollow-noarchive-nosnippet-meta-tags-10595

Use

https://moz.com/researchtools/on-page-grader

to look for a bad tag

check your robots.txt file using

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/

Then use

http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/free-optimization/

to check for any other thing blocking it

REMEMBER your site is new google might not have archived your site yet

Hope this helps,

Thomas
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