Cache-control?

[Ronald Regging]

My site has been running for a month now and I just realized it had a meta tag cache-control set to no-cache... I read around and found out this could very likely prevent Google and other SEs from indexing my site.

So my main question is, what exactly is this control for? Is it going to cause any bad sideeffects from me removing it? Google has been crawling my site every day for a month, yet not indexing it, so I'm wondering if this was the problem.

 

[netzilla]

From my experience something like this: <META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> simply tells the requester not to use any cached information but instead requests should be forwarded to the origin server.

I wouldn't see why this is causing Google not to index your site. I bet there is something else wrong there.

 

[Ronald Regging]

well a day after removing it and I'm now indexed by Google too much of a coincidence for me. Not to mention i just got added to 39 other search engines since removing it

 

[zachary0611]

i would also check out googles webmasters tools too