Q and A: Why aren't all my site pages being cached in Google?

Dear Kalena...

Our website is in the top 100,000 websites (Alexa Rank) and i find that Googlebot has crawled almost all our webpages but when i click on "show cache" in Firefox, it is not showing for a lot many pages.

I hope that you would have seen such incidences earlier and would like to know the reason why it happens and what can be done to better it?

Waiting on you!
Rishi

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Rishi

I've checked a few pages of your site and most are showing up as recently cached in Google. There were a couple uncached and quite a few showing a very old cache.

Usually caching errors are caused by:

1) Googlebot abandoning the indexing of your site due to a problem it struck in your code.
2) Googlebot abandoning the indexing of your site due to reaching the maximum site data quota set by Google.
3) A no-cache tag appearing in the code on your page.
4) Googlebot avoiding certain areas of your site by obeying the contents of your Robots.txt file
5) A lack of internal / external links pointing to a particular page on your site (Googlebot being unable to find it).
6) Failure to include all site pages in your navigation structure and/or your Google Sitemap.
7) Incorrect formatting or uploading of your Google Sitemap XML file. Try creating an XML sitemap from scratch.

You should check all these possibilities and monitor your site's indexing via Google Sitemaps.

Hope this helps!

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