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13 Nov 2012, 5:30 PM

sjbglx

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How to stop Google from caching website?

hello, everyone,
I understand to keep google from caching website I need to add "<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />"
but I am not sure which page I need to touch and how. Your advice is much appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

13 Nov 2012, 5:50 PM

kobra

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Re: How to stop Google from caching website?

In a copy for your template the file is html_header.php

The core file which you make a copy of for your template is at includes/templates/template_default/common

21 Nov 2012, 1:58 AM

sph

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Re: How to stop Google from caching website?

Out of curiosity, what is the advantage or purpose of not having Google cache a site?

21 Nov 2012, 9:06 AM

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Re: How to stop Google from caching website?

You should also have a robots.txt file in your root directory that contains the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

(If you want to be more specific about what is allowed and disallowed, see http://www.robotstxt.org . Google also offers advice on how to construct a robots.txt file)