Posting this for a friend, so here goes:

His site, www.bratch.co.uk is not being cached by Google. Google say this is because his robots.txt file, at www.bratch.co.uk/robots.txt is not allowing the site to be cached.

Obviously, this file is allowing all bots to trawl any part of the site, and isn't restricting anything, so my question is, why is Google not caching the site?

All response/advice appreciated.

the problem is the session IDs site:search in the URI

Originally Posted by chrishirst

the problem is the session IDs site:search in the URI

It's caching the phpBB forum fine, but not the main site, which is www.bratch.co.uk, not www.bratch.co.uk/phpBB2/

I don't understand? I followed the link to Google as provided by chrishirst and I thought I was seeing multiple pages that were cached. Am I correct?

Webseeker

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...uk&btnG=Search

There is no option for the main site's cache, but it is caching sub-directories and files such as /phpBB2/index.php.

We want it to cache www.bratch.co.uk/index.php, but it won't/doesn't.

Other search engines, like MSN and Yahoo are caching it.

Why?

there is nothing on the page that would make any difference if it's cached or not.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Why?

there is nothing on the page that would make any difference if it's cached or not.

Which is why I've been asking why Google isn't caching it, it's not like we're opting out of the cache or anything...

A lot of things can cause pages not to be cached

the issue here is probably the fact that to the Google algo it's a one page website with all offsite links, Maybe if the page had something worth indexing maybe it would be cached.