Link from PDF document?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Svato, Dec 21, 2005.

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    I was wondering if links from PDF documents get picked up and accounted for by search engines. Anyone has experience with this?
     
    Svato, Dec 21, 2005 IP
  2. bay192

    bay192 Peon

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    As far as I know most search engines will not pick up link except it is html links
     
    bay192, Dec 23, 2005 IP
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    seo_expert Well-Known Member

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    I have not seen any link in SEPRs coming from inner pages of a .pdf document...
     
    seo_expert, Dec 23, 2005 IP
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    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.
     
    minstrel, Dec 25, 2005 IP
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    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.
     
    mdvaldosta, Dec 25, 2005 IP