No cache?

I would not like the search engines to cache my pages. How can this be done? Can this be done with Vbseo and if not, what exactly do I need to do to prevent the search engines from caching my content? Thanks in advance.

Just add

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />

to your headinclude template.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Just add

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />

to your headinclude template.

Thanks Brian, I had just read your post here: How can I set "noarchive" meta in all forum pages

Is there any trick with the sitemaps to get Google to revisit my pages faster to get rid of the already cached pages? Something like the "priorities" in the sitemaps set to daily, hourly or something?

sitemaps, indexing, rank, and other wise have nothing to do with the snapshot cache of the page. If that's your sole reason for removing the cache link, there's no point.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

sitemaps, indexing, rank, and other wise have nothing to do with the snapshot cache of the page. If that's your sole reason for removing the cache link, there's no point.

But the snapshot of the page will be removed by Google once the page is re-crawled, correct? That's what I care about. I thought by Google revisiting my pages, it would remove the snapshot they already have of it. Isn't that what would happen Brian?

I'm sure they store a new snapshot every time they visit (once per session?). No one knows how long they retain it for. It's possible that it is only one, but it may be deeper.

Either way, the cache/snapshot is the afterthought of the bot visiting your site. Clearing the link to snapshot won't have the bot to come back any more frequently..

Thanks Brian. I think by "link to snapshot" you mean the "cache" link below the search results listings. I don't care about removing that link, at least not immediately, but I do care about the content of the cache snapshot reflecting old information. So I thought maybe by playing with the sitemap priorities I could get Google to recrawl my site faster and at least updating the snapshot before removal, if it is ever removed after I set the noarchive tag in the headinclude template as you instructed.

I found this on Google's help:

"If the content of the page (whether the content itself, or the page title or other information) has changed, the changes will be reflected in Google's index the next time we crawl your site and refresh our index. However, until that time, Google's cache may still contain the original content and as a result this content can still appear in search results. In this case, you can request that the cached version of the page be removed from search results. This will also remove the page snippet."

If google isn't visiting your site fast enough, there is a speed option in the webmaster tools area to set a manual crawl rate. Changing the cache has nothing to do with this.