Link from PDF document?

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Svato

Dec 21st 2005, 1:34 pm

I was wondering if links from PDF documents get picked up and accounted for by search engines. Anyone has experience with this?

bay192

Dec 23rd 2005, 2:31 am

As far as I know most search engines will not pick up link except it is html links

seo_expert

Dec 23rd 2005, 2:43 am

I have not seen any link in SEPRs coming from inner pages of a .pdf document...

minstrel

Dec 25th 2005, 11:29 am

I'm not sure about this.

Google certainly indexes the contents of PDF files. Given that, why would it not also index any URLs within those files? And if it can do that, it should be able to recognize a link as a link. And if it can do that, why would it not count links in a PDF file just as it does links on an HTML page?

This is not a statement that the previous posters are wrong - more a question as to what those opinions are based on.

mdvaldosta

Dec 25th 2005, 11:50 am

Minstrel may be onto something. G does index them and in fact converts them to html format (you know the option to "view as html". Maybe they count, I dunno.