Hi all, My CMS has the option to show a print or pdf format, will this be seen as double content? it shows a link above the article like Print | PDF and when clicked it pops up a printable or pdf version of the article. I was looking at the supplemental results from some datacenters and found out that the PDF versions were all, or at least most, indexed. I stopped using the option but I was wondering if I should introduce it again on my site. Danny
It will be seen as duplicate content because it quite clearly is duplicate content. However the only thing that will happen is the pdf version will not show up in the search results or it might show up below the actual page. If you are concerned just make the link to the pdf ducument nofollow and this will stop them being indexed. Or block google from the pdf files in robots.txt.