When did Google last crawl your site or blog?
Do you know when Google last crawled your website or blog? This is a very handy tip to know. A useful tool that is available in Internet Explorer and FireFox is the Google cached page feature.
What is the Google cache?
The Google cache is a copy of your web page that is stored in Google.The Google bot is always looking for fresh content. Once the Google bot has found new content it is updated in the search engines. If you updated a webpage on your website or blog, at some point Google will crawl it and update it’s cache.
Find out when Google crawled your site
- Go into your web browser
- Make sure you have the Google Toolbar installed for your web browser
- Right hand click on the webpage with your mouse
- Scroll to Page Info
- On the extended menu select Cached Snapshot of Page
Once selected a grey bar will appear at the top of the webpage and Google will tell you when your webpage was last crawled.
If you wish for Google to crawl your webpage more often. The answer is to update your webpage more often. This is why Google loves blogs, because the content is updated more often, than a static webpage.
TechZoomIn
James,
Am not seeing “pageinfo” when i right click.Which browser? and need to install something extra ?
Posted 1-7-2009
James King
Hi Lax,
This should as standard in IE6, IE7 and Firefox.
Posted 1-7-2009
NingboWeather
Thank you James for your useful article !
May I add for those who do not have the Google Toolbar installed or surfing from a public computer, that a few websites like mypagerank.net can also provide this service for free.
Roger
Posted 12-27-2009
james
Thanks for the great tip.
Posted 1-4-2010