Can Search Engines Crawl PDF Files

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Brian Melony, Jul 15, 2008.

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    Hi DF Members,

    Please let me know can search engines read or crawl pdf files?
     
    Brian Melony, Jul 15, 2008 IP
  2. hooperman

    hooperman Well-Known Member

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    Yes. However, the text that gets converted loses any headings that were originally applied. This means that your key phrases lose any prominence they may have had.

    Presumably DF is Digital Fire? :D
     
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  3. Robert T

    Robert T Peon

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    Yes they can. Google is even working towards indexing flash files.

    These documents can be indexed


    Yahoo & MSN
    .html .htm HTML files
    .xls excel spreadsheet
    .pdf Portable Document Format
    .ppt Microsoft Power Point
    .doc Microsoft Word
    .xml XML/RSS files
    .txt Text files

    Google indexes all those and:

    .ps Postscript files (printer language)
    .dwf Autodesk
    .kml Google Earth
    .kmz Google Earth
    .rtf Rich Text
    .swf Flash
     
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    djingel Active Member

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    you could also block them for the spiders if you want
     
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  5. fr@nc!z

    fr@nc!z Active Member

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    Yes, it is! I have made some searches before wherein i encounter PDF files in the results.
     
    fr@nc!z, Jul 15, 2008 IP