The Yahoo! Search engine contains snapshots of the majority of pages discovered during the Web crawling process. We link to the cached page so that the you can view the snapshot just in case the live page is unavailable at the time of your search. When you view a cached page you will see it as it looked when Yahoo! Search last indexed it, with search terms highlighted.
If you do not want your content to be accessible through the cache link, you can use either of the following methods:
Applying the noindex Meta Tag:
- Place the following tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
or
Applying the noindex Directive:
- Configure your web server to place the following directive in the HTTP header:
X-Robots-Tag: NOARCHIVE
Our crawler continues to index and follow links from the page, but it does not display a cached page link in search results. Please note this change will occur the next time the Yahoo! Search engine crawls the page containing the NOARCHIVE tag or directive. This typically takes place at least once per month.
Please understand that NOARCHIVE only removes the cached page. To prevent the page content from being indexed, use the NOINDEX tag. To prevent the crawler from following links, use the NOFOLLOW tag.