Inflated Google Cache???

#1

I had posted this question in the general section, (big mistake) and
received no answers. I also e-mailed Google and received the standard
cut and paste reply which said nothing.

On with the question.
Google is now showing 10,800 of my pages in their cache. This sounds
good right? The problem is, I only have about 3500 pages.
Is there any way to really see the Google cache for my site?

Here is some background that led up to this. About three months ago I
had to change my company name and domain name. I had my host set up a
IIS permenent redirect and moved the pages into the new domain. Of
course the PR5 that I enjoyed for years was lost and the new domain
seems to be starting from scratch. (crap!!)

I am concerned that Google may be cacheing pages multiple times
resulting in a duplicate page penalty. My old domain was
www.riksmusic.com and the new domain is www.rmcaudio.com.

I own the site but am certainly no web guru so any insight in to this
cache thing would be great.

Thanks,
Rik

#2

On 6 Oct 2005 05:22:22 -0700, "Rik" <rik (AT) rmcaudio (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

I had posted this question in the general section, (big mistake) and
received no answers. I also e-mailed Google and received the standard
cut and paste reply which said nothing.

On with the question.
Google is now showing 10,800 of my pages in their cache. This sounds
good right? The problem is, I only have about 3500 pages.
Is there any way to really see the Google cache for my site?

Here is some background that led up to this. About three months ago I
had to change my company name and domain name. I had my host set up a
IIS permenent redirect and moved the pages into the new domain. Of
course the PR5 that I enjoyed for years was lost and the new domain
seems to be starting from scratch. (crap!!)

I am concerned that Google may be cacheing pages multiple times
resulting in a duplicate page penalty. My old domain was
www.riksmusic.com and the new domain is www.rmcaudio.com.

I own the site but am certainly no web guru so any insight in to this
cache thing would be great.

Thanks,
Rik

Hi Rik
What you are mentioning happened between 5th sept and 8th sept.
One of my sites was showing 14500 and since the 8th was showing 39000

It has since dropped slightly to 38900
I've no idea why.
You are not alone.

plh
Paul

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#3

Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

It has since dropped slightly to 38900
I've no idea why.

Google has quadrupled the index?

How did you check the nr of cached pages?

Quote:

You are not alone.

Now that sounds creepy to me, somehow :-)

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#4

On 6 Oct 2005 13:04:41 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

It has since dropped slightly to 38900
I've no idea why.

Google has quadrupled the index?

How did you check the nr of cached pages?

yourcache.com

Quote:

You are not alone.

Now that sounds creepy to me, somehow :-)

I see dead people.
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#5

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:11:08 +0200, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com>
wrote:

Quote:

I see dead people.

Ask Bruce Willis for help

Best,
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#6

So it's just one of those things that make you go Hmmm?

Maybe Google should put those silly eyes back in the o's like they had
at one time.

#7

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On 6 Oct 2005 05:22:22 -0700, "Rik" <rik (AT) rmcaudio (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Google is now showing 10,800 of my pages in their cache. This sounds
good right? The problem is, I only have about 3500 pages.

Same exact thing here. Google always used to show between 500 and 900
pages for me. Now they're showing 10,300. Funny thing is my sitemap
lists only 1980 or so actual pages, plus another 1520 images. Some of
the excess may be from their listing the default page in a directory
twice, both as itself and without the filename at the end. No idea what
the rest of the excess may be. You can only see the top 1000 or so
listings on Google, so the rest is a mystery. It is working very well
now, though, without missing a lot of pages as it used to do.

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#8

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:39:40 +0200, Borek
<borek (AT) parts (DOT) bpp.to.com.remove.pl> wrote:

Quote:

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:11:08 +0200, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com
wrote:

I see dead people.

Ask Bruce Willis for help

Best,
Borek

LMAO

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#9

Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

On 6 Oct 2005 13:04:41 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

It has since dropped slightly to 38900
I've no idea why.

Google has quadrupled the index?

How did you check the nr of cached pages?

yourcache.com

Thanks, I seem to be at 790, while I have 692 actual pages.
Somehow, when I created directories here and there for comments, with
just a comments.html, Google considered it funny to also index the
directory itself, and hence:

intitle:"Index of" inurl:johnbokma.com

Now I wonder, did I do something stupid?

Quote:

You are not alone.

Now that sounds creepy to me, somehow :-)

I see dead people.

My fault, I will clean up tomorrow.

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#10

Rik wrote:

Quote:

I am concerned that Google may be cacheing pages multiple times
resulting in a duplicate page penalty. My old domain was
www.riksmusic.com and the new domain is www.rmcaudio.com.

Come to think of it: all these pages belong to you, so whatever Google
decides is the original page, the traffic will still land on your site.
Hope it'll make you sleep easier ;-)

Anyways, yes, Google's index has been bloated since early September.
Although I do not know a sure way of checking on that other than sitting
througn several hours on Google and checking my own indexed pages, but I
have a feeling that Google might have (temporarily?) REMOVED the
duplication filters. Somewhere around that same time there was a crossfire
between Yahoo and Google abount the actual size of the index. Google was
boasting "indexing 8+ billion pages" on which Yahoo person commented: "big
deal - we index 20+ bill. pages". So Google got all wound up and their
spokesperson said: "you know what - the size does not matter anymore. We
index hundred of billions of pages but we don't make a big deal of it".
Consequently Google removed the phrase about amount of pages indexed from
their homepage. So, in my mind the easies way to increase the size of the
index overnight is to remove filtering and count ALL pages, original and
duplicates in the total number. After all, in order to know if a page is a
duplicate of another page, you have to index it first!

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