Google Cache 404 Hack

When Google began to move over to mobile-first indexing back in March 2018, it wasn’t without its teething problems. This move was both welcomed and feared by SEO experts and website owners alike because the search engine giant will now primarily use the mobile version of your site to rank you, and what if you aren’t truly mobile-ready?

Suddenly, site owners and developers found themselves facing the prospect of their desktop-perfect website being pushed down the result pages and perhaps delisted altogether. With search engine optimisation becoming more focused on how your website appears on mobile devices, how quickly it loads, and how responsive it is, if your site wasn’t up-to-date, there was the increasing pressure of making sure it was.

However, this movement sparked another worry: the Google Cache 404 Page Not Found error.

Google cache 404 is an internal issue; it doesn’t impact on your ranking or your indexing. Google is aware of the issue, so SEO experts.

So, how do you get around it?

It is relatively simple to solve, with the help of removing your own cache URL and replacing it instead with ‘x.xyz/.’

Google Cache 404 Hack

1. Search your site on Google and click cache button from the green arrow
2. Change the URL 
3. Remove: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YvzUPvz5aCQJ:https://clickintelligence.co.uk
4. Replace: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YvzUPvz5aCQJ:x.xyz/
5. That is it you should now be able to see you if your site is cached.

By removing our own URL at the end of the cache link, we can easily access the cache version, eliminating the likelihood of the error 404 Page Not Found appearing.

Hope this help and leave me a comment below about any hacks you have seen or found.