Google Crawl Question

Will Google and other SEs be able to crawl word and PDF documents in my site?

J

 

Google can index Word/PDF's without a problem.

 

They definately crawl index and index .pdf's as I get a lot of traffic from those
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=.pdf&meta=

I think that Word Documents are indexed however to tell you the truth, all my experience is with SEOing pdf's

 

i've seen plenty Word files come up in results. Powerpoint files are indexed too.

 

There are 13 main file types searched by Google in addition to standard web formatted documents in HTML.

* Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
* Adobe PostScript (ps)
* Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
* Lotus WordPro (lwp)
* MacWrite (mw)
* Microsoft Excel (xls)
* Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
* Microsoft Word (doc)
* Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
* Microsoft Write (wri)
* Rich Text Format (rtf)
* Shockwave Flash (swf)
* Text (ans, txt)

 

Awesome.

thx

 

Google Facts & Fiction

 

why PHP is not included?

 

PHP is too obvious, I suppose

 

Exactly...They don't list html either but you know those are indexed

 

Actually, I cut the quote off somehow. Here it is:

 

There is a firefox plugin that has an option to "see"/save this files as html file.
So if a browser can do that, why not an SE?
Or am I wrong somehow?

 

If your search turns up a non-HTML file, such as a PDF file, Google includes the option in the listing to "View as HTML".

 

True minstrel.
So is Google crawling this PDF files?
I belive, it does.

 

So now your doctoring quotes, eh? Don't you know how I feel about that?

 

Yes. Crawling and indexing them.

 

I'm just not used to the new chainsaw...

I asked SEbasic for his but he's being stingy...