{"id":248,"date":"2016-05-16T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technicalseo.com\/insights\/?p=248"},"modified":"2019-04-30T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:48:21","slug":"google-cache-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalseo.com\/insights\/blog\/max-prin-blog\/google-cache-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Google&#8217;s Cache Should Not Be Used For SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For a long time, SEOs have relied on Google&#8217;s cached version of pages to answer questions such as&nbsp;<em>Did Google crawl this page? When? 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