To cache or not to cache? April 14, 2010 No Comments
Sometimes there are certain pages on your site that you don’t want caching by the search engines for whatever reason. Today I’ll discuss a few ways in which you can achieve this without harming your site’s SEO efforts.
Firstly, why might you want to ‘hide’ certain pages from the Google index anyway? The main reason is to avoid duplicated content. Sometimes there will be pages that your visitors will find highly useful, for example a page which lists articles relating to a certain tag. If this page were to be cached it would be likely to contain duplicated content from elsewhere on the site. Other pages that you may not want to be cached would be login pages, restricted areas of your site etc.
