how to tell Google not to cache and does this effect SEO?

**kevinh** · 06-17-2009 07:05 PM

This is a two part question

Firstly, how can I tell Google not to cache pages on my vBulletin forum?

and if I can do this will it have a negative impact on SEO?

**briansol** · 06-17-2009 11:41 PM

it can't be done

**kevinh** · 06-17-2009 11:56 PM

So we there's no way to put a meta tag in the <HEAD> section of each page?

**briansol** · 06-18-2009 12:01 AM

adding the noarchive tag will prevent the link from showing eventually, but the cache still exists. Cached pages - Webmasters/Site owners Help

**kevinh** · 06-18-2009 12:50 AM

I'm confused! The Google page you linked to says this;

To remove cached versions of a page from Google's index and prevent Google from caching the page in the future, you must add a noarchive meta tag to that page. The next time we crawl that site, we'll see the tag and remove the page.

To prevent all search engines from showing a "Cached" link for your site, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">To prevent only Google from

displaying one, use the following tag:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">

Surely this means it can be done, simply by adding the noarchive meta tag? (once Google re-crawls the pages)

**briansol** · 06-18-2009 02:25 AM

it removes the link, but the page can still be accessed by a cache url if known.

**kevinh** · 06-18-2009 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by briansol

it removes the link, but the page can still be accessed by a cache url if known.

That's fine. Can it be done via vBSEO or do we have to modify vBulletin?

Does it affect search engine results ranking or page rank?

**woostar** · 06-18-2009 10:41 AM

I've done it on all showthread pages and not had any problems (touch wood).

Note: Using a noarchive metatag removes only the "Cached" link for the page. Google will continue to index the page and display a snippet.

**briansol** · 06-18-2009 07:27 PM

you'll have to add the meta tag to your headinclude template manually. it's not a part of vbseo, and frankly, i see no point in removing it at all in the first place.

**woostar** · 06-18-2009 07:35 PM

I have A LOT of personal stuff put on my forum. Quite often we have to move these posts into the relevant member only forums by which time it is already indexed.

**kevinh** · 06-18-2009 07:43 PM

The issue has come up because someone mentioned their employer in their profile. They have then posted about an issue in the workplace, not mentioning their employer in the posts but other users have checked out this user's profile and seen who they work for.

The user concerned has edited their profile, but the old profile is still being cached by Google. This is potentially a problem for this user.

Those of us who allow posts to be edited on our forums have a very good reason to not want information to be cached by search engines.

**symptome** · 08-08-2009 02:44 PM

I see the benefits of noarchive.
So I'd like to read about your opinions about seo-effects too.

**wac** · 11-05-2010 01:16 PM

Has Vbseo done anything about this? Can the no cache be done with Vbseo? Anybody from the team can respond to this? If you haven't done anything about this, how exactly can this be done? I don't want the search engines to cache my pages.

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-05-2010 03:00 PM

You need to add the meta tag as outlined above.

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