Why does my Google Web Cache Redirects to My Homepage?

[Francis.Magos]

Why does my Google Webcache appears in a short period of time and then automatically redirects to my homepage? Is there something wrong with my robots.txt? The only files that I have blocked is below:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /common/
Disallow: /css/
Disallow: /download/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /medias/
Disallow: /ClientInfo.aspx
Disallow: /*affiliateId*
Disallow: /*referral*

[DirkC]

Your robots.txt file is used to give instructions to bots visiting to your site - which parts can/cannot be visited.

If your page is in the cache - you are probably allowing the bots to visit the page (else it wouldn't be there). The reason why you are redirected to the homepage should have another cause. Are you using a meta-refresh? Javascript or htaccess redirects?

You could try to check what's happening by copying the cache url in httpstatus.io - url to use is

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A< <insert your="" encoded="" url="" here="">- to encode your url you can use http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/</insert>

Dirk