I needed to learn how to force a Google Page Cache refresh after my site had a hack last month. Here’s what I learned.
1) There is no way to force a refresh.
Unless you are a Google Engineer, that is. Sadly, I am not. Something tells
me that Google Engineers are not allowed to do that for their own sites,
either.
2) You can actively work your site to inspire Google to refresh the page cache.
Try the following. It has worked for me.
- Add frequent content – like in this blog
- Have good titles and meta tags, especially description
- Cross link posts
- Update old articles with new information, diagrams, etc
- Get new sites to link to your stuff
- Make sure those sitemaps are up to date!
Anything I missed? Let me know below.
