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How to Find Web Page Cache Date
10/18/09
How to Find Web Page Cache Date
When you are out building backlinks whether you are leaving comments on blogs or looking to buy a link spot you need to know if the page you are looking at is still getting cached.
If a page is no longer getting cached then a link there is pretty much useless. Let’s not waste our link building efforts on an old ‘dead’ page, especially if you are buying a link placement.
There is a free toolbar that can give you the cache date of any page with just 2 clicks. Go over and get Aaron Walls SEOBOOK ToolBar. This is one of the handiest toolbars I have on my browser. I have several toolbars installed but, most of them I have turned off unless I need them. The SEObook toolbar is one that I always have on.
Here is the SEOBook Toolbar showing the Page Rank, Domain Links, and Page Links. Yes, the toolbar has much more but, I just want to show you this small section.
To see when a page was last cached you will click on the ARROW right next to the little green Page Rank.
This will give you a dropdown with 2 choices.
Chose GOOGLE CACHE to see the entire page, including the theme with the cache date info at the top or chose GOOGLE TEXT CACHE which will also have the cache date info at the top but, will remove the theme coding and give you a text only view.
Super simple!
Just keep in mind that you want your links on pages that have been cached within the last couple of weeks. The fresher the cache date, the better.
Just because a page was posted months ago does not mean that it will have an old cache date. Some pages that Google still finds very useful will be cached on a regular basis.
Now, don’t waste any time buying or building links on old pages that even Google doesn’t pay attention to.
Once you have placed your link be sure to Ping Your New Backlink.
If you have backlinks on a page that is not being cached regularly, throw a few fresh links at it from a forum, blog, social site…
If the page is on your own site, then update the page with some new fresh info and re-ping it.
If it is on your site you can also post a fresh internal link to it from a new article.
Ok, go get your toolbar and check those cache dates!
I’ll write another post on how I use the Backlink portion of the toolbar to find out where I need more links. 
Sheryl Loch
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Recently (10/21/09) Brian D. Hawkins wrote Blog Directories – Can We Live Without Them?. Check it out!
I checked your site. You do have some pages Cached. It looks like the newest cache date was Oct.20.
What was odd - Your post Chasing a Guru Ghost - the acctuall article in NOT cached BUT, the comments on that post are.
Not every post you have has cached comments. But, the ones have commented on lately are. That makes me wonder if it is because I PING most comments that I leave. <- Theory mind you!
Theory #2 - I have Backtype that picks up many comments that I leave. My backtype account is also strung through different pages that pull the RSS. I started string Backtype not long ago.
And all of this could be nothing. It could be that someone else that is commenting on your blogs have done something to help them get picked up.
As for the main part of your site, you may just need to throw a few fresh links at the individual post. Put them somewhere that does get cached regularly (and dofollow) and draw them bad boy bots in. Be sure to put your anchor text and put the link mid paragraph if possible. You can see I do that alot at the Guild when I hook in links I care about.
I'll write a post in the next day about helping everyone in your blog community get found.
Recently (10/21/09) Brian D. Hawkins wrote Blog Directories – Can We Live Without Them?. Check it out!
I really like that toolbar. I will have to get it. You will have to write a post on how to get the most out if the SEOBook toolbar.
Thanks, Glad you and your blog are back.
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