Are my PDFs causing duplicate content issues?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Domoner, Mar 22, 2014.

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    Our site currently has 9 PDFs - if you click them they open in a new window or you can right click and download.

    The problem is the PDFs content is also wrote up on the site under information articles. To make things worse, the sames PDFs are also on another site -- This means the content is in 3 places as far as Google is concerned: Site 1's articles and PDFs and site 2's PDFs.

    Should I de-index the PDFs altogether, can I make it so that Google treats the site articles as the main source of that content?
     
    Domoner, Mar 22, 2014 IP
  2. patco

    patco Well-Known Member

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    Well... This could cause the problem. I am really curious why did you use the SAME information on all of them? :(
     
    patco, Mar 22, 2014 IP
  3. nightwolf909

    nightwolf909 Active Member

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    Why not just host them on let's say Dropbox or any file sharing website and provide link on the website for download?
     
    nightwolf909, Mar 26, 2014 IP