I made changes to many main pages on my site over the last 2 months. 
It seems every few days, google does something resulting in either an
improvement  (higher up in the search resutls listing) of my site for
many relevant searches (call this good times) or a worsening (bad
times).   During good times, the cached page link off the google
serach points to the new page.  During bad times, the cached page link
off the google page points to an old page (in some cases more than 2
months old and several iterations ago).  My question is why is this
happening and how can I stop it.   BTW, my site is www. jandd.com  &
an example page is www.jandd.com/bikes.asp  Please note that this page
is not dynamic, eventhough it has an asp extension.
thanks

Hi, 

There is really no way of controlling what is cached and what is not
by Google or any other search engine on the level you suggest, but you
can request that the pages not be cached at all. To do this you would
place in your header area as a META TAG

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

or if you just want Google to stop caching your site 

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

This will only stop the Google Bot from archiving the site as a cache
and should not effect its other duties of indexing and placing your
site on the Google search engine.

You can read more about this and other things dealing with Google here
:

://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by gtjandd-ga on 20 Oct 2002 23:11 PDT

Unfortunately, you did not answer my question.  The issue is that my
search results ranking from google varies wildly every few days.  This
appears to be related to the fact that the cached pages (the cached
link on the google search results page) points to alternating versions
of my site pages.  One day it points to a version 3 iterations ago,
the next it points to a new version. This alternating effect makes no
sense and is adversely affecting my ranking within the search results.
 I am NOT asking how not to get pages cached!  I want to know why the
cache points sometimes to pages that I altered 3 months ago and why it
sometimnes points correctly to the new page.  An example: I have a
page on my site bikes.asp  I edited this page several times 3 months
ago.  Sometimes, the cached page on the google search results point to
the current bikes.asp and sometimes the cache points to an old
version.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason why.  According to
google documentation, the cached page is what was used the last time
google crawled my site and indexed it.  Therefore if every few days,
google indexes my site on an old version of that page, the index does
not reflect the new information on that page, eventhough I changed it
more than 3 months ago.

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 21 Oct 2002 02:42 PDT

Hi, I apologize for the misunderstanding there. The talk about the
page caching threw me as your primary concern. Before I answer here
what I think you want to know, let me clarify with you, that your
primary concern is your website's PageRank or PR, and its listing
status on Google. Is this correct? and you are merely seeing a
possible correlation with what the "cache" page is pointing to on
Google, and not what the listing link is pointing to on Google. Right?
Currently your PageRank is 6 of 10, and you are saying that this drops
down and comes back up every few days. Yes?

Thanks and I'll be looking for your response so I can get you some
answers.

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 21 Oct 2002 02:45 PDT

Hi again, .. By the way, what service provider are you using to
connect to the internet with? Is this an AOL account or a Cox @ Home
account? or something else? Please let me know the exact ISP you are
using.

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

hi..
the people who are maintaing the server ( your web page provider )
must clear the old page instead of arriving a new page u r given..i
mean the server people must delete the old index page and setting up
the new index page for u r site..
and your programmer must add the keywords tag in your sites
pages...clarify these things..i ll give u the fine solution...
bye for now :)
ravindran