"No cache" tag doesn't prevent google from caching the site pages

Drago05

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I have a wordpress site and i want to prevent google from caching the pages of my site. I used this meta tags in the header.php:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache" />
<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive" />
<meta name=?robots? content=?noarchive? />

But google is still caching the pages. What else can i do to stop google from caching the pages?
 
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> :)
 
You should look at them as 'guidelines' for the bot, not actual rules.
 
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> :)

This will tell google to not index the site. I want google to index the site but not cache the pages because i don't want visitors to see cached version of the pages.
 
You need "noarchive".

Also in your post the second meta tag doesn't use double quotes, it says name=?? content=?? but should be name="" content=""
Example: <meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />

These are the options available:
noindex: prevents the page from being indexed
nofollow: prevents the Googlebot from following links from this page
nosnippet: prevents a snippet from being shown in the search results
noodp: prevents the alternative description from the ODP/DMOZ from being used
noarchive: prevents Google from showing the Cached link for a page.
unavailable_after:[date]: lets you specify the exact time and date you want to stop crawling and indexing of this page
noimageindex: lets you specify that you do not want your page to appear as the referring page for an image that appears in Google search results.
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Thanks for the info, I had a problem with google cache as well.
 
I haven't tried it yet as well, maybe the latest feedbacks might help, I'm also looking for this answer for I also have the same problem, I hope this is going to work. Thanks.
 
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