I don`t want Google to offer my .PDF in HTML-Versions

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    Hi,

    I need a solution for a lil problem that I have with some PDF-docs. I don`t like Google offering a HTML version of my PDFdocs. What can I do to prevent Google from offering HTML versions? Any ideas?

    Oh and by the way...does Google chache PDF-Files?

    Thank you for your help.
    Jab
     
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    Nora Well-Known Member

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    As far as I know they cache them.. the only option would be removing them completely from the search engine..
     
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    lojadeluxo Well-Known Member

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    disallow: /*.pdf

    add that code to your robots.txt file.

    google will delete current pdf files and will not index any more pdf files
     
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    Ok, but I cannot prevent Google from caching/ offering HTML versions without banning my files from the SERPs? Of course I want to rank with them I just don`t want to be cached.
     
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    Just want to let you know that I found a solution to my problem:

    A special case is PDF files that should be indexed, but not cached. There is no way to directly include meta information in a PDF file, but if security is enabled for a PDF file it will be treated as if the noarchive tag was specified. Security settings can be controlled using Adobe Acrobat (not the free Reader).

    http://www.uky.edu/Providers/searching.html#caching

    Thanks anyway for trying to help me out.
     
    jabz.biz, Sep 11, 2007 IP