I was messing around the meta tag to optimize my blog and hope to get a better search results or page ranking. I have decided to remove the cache from Google by adding the noarchive to the GoogleBot meta tag.

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”index,follow, noarchive” />

I have few reasons by doing that.

1. I found people were checking out the Google cache of my blog. The cache was showing my old blog with old black template. In other words, my visitor is viewing my out-date content. That is no good. I want my visitor to vist my site for newer and fresh content.
2. Googel does seem to craw my site more frequently if I turn the noarchive off. In the Google Webmaster tools, it indicates that my site was visited on June 4, but it says June 5 in the search result. With archive turns on, the result pages seem to be older than what is craawled in the Webmaster tools.

So I changed my meta tag to use noarchive. Now on Google search result page, I don’t see cache link at all. Since I changed the setting, I don’t see people checking out my site through the Google cache. I do see people are translating my page into German, Spanish and Chinese. I just don’t know if they can understand me after translate my Chinglish. (English + Chinese)

Now I had one problem which is my fault. I start thinking how GoogleBot cache can help me to recover what the damage I did to my blog. I was reviewing Windows Live Writer and BlogDesk for my offline blogging writer software. I accidentally deleted few of my blog entries from the FireFox plug-in “ScribeFire“. So I screwed! I went to google and did a search and found my old entries with the old template. So I copy them and paste back to my blog as new entries.

What a nightmare. What if I don’t have cache on Google? What if I can’t get my blog entries back? People will like to my site with missing post. It will definitely hurt my blog the big time. Now, I will remember to backup my post. Why is it good idea to user offline blog writer? It does save a copy of the blog and images on my local disk. I can repost it, if I accidentlally delete them on the web site.

Anyway, I don’t know what will cost me if I disable the GoogleBot archive feature. I assume it won’t hurt my page ranking or SERP, if I have a good quality content.

Any idea?

What is the most common asked question by web novice or webmaster now a day? “How do I get my site list on Google?” Every with this question is probably throw back with a lot of answer related SEO (search engine optimization). There are many webmaster who is making big $$$ and do SEO for living, so they always tell you that you need “SEO” your web site. Well. SEO is important and very important for a webmaster to get their web site on top of the search engine, but it’s not the key and how you can get your site list at the first place. So what is the free and easy way to get list on Google?

You can do this all by yourself. How? There are few things you need to keep in mind.

1. A good meta tag keywords and description are the first thing to pay attention.
   Logon to Google and find the link at the bottom of the Google home page. Business Solutions . This is the link taking you to a bunch links which is useful for webmaster. Find the Web pages link and then Webmaster tools (including Sitemaps)
2. Add a new site to the list. This is where you can start submitting your web site.
3. Find a good PHP script to generate the SiteMap that can be used by Google, Yahoo and MSN. You can find a really good PHP Site Map Tool here at http://enarion.net/google/. That’s all you have to do.

If you have question on how to do this all by yourself, you are welcome to contact me. Would you like to pay $$$ to get your site listed at first place while you can do and I can help for FREE?