Well, at least expired milk according to Adam Conover wont hurt you.

And at least according to Googles John Mueller, Danny Sullivan, Martin Splitt and others - an old cache date wont hurt your Google rankings.

We covered this about a month ago already - where Google said dont worry about the cache date being a month old.

So yes, the cache date has updated but it is still a month old for many including this site.

But no, it doesnt impact this sites rankings or indexing, nor should it impact your sites rankings or indexing in Google.

John Mueller from Google just said on Twitter The cached page is not always representative of crawling indexing, so I generally wouldnt use the date shown there as a sign of a problem.

But please keep in mind that the cache date does not reflect the current date of a document indexed in our systems.

Cache is like a nice convenient feature that we offer but it is not related to indexing.

Still, this is concerning for some SEOs and I suspect sooner than later Google will update the date to be more recent.

Until then, dont blame your cache date for your ranking issues in Google.

This work by Search Engine Roundtable is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

How To Save Google Cache Page