Re: PDFs and SEO

Google indexes content inside PDF documents, but then they offer
searchers the ability to view it as HTML instead. So, there's a
trade-off. Sometimes their HTML version loses the formatting that made
you choose PDF in the first place.

Also, more is known about SEO optimizing HTML content. I don't think
you'll find much information about how Google ranks PDFs.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Justin Lui <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've recently been tasked to managing the content for a business that sells
> mechanical components.  There are many PDFs scattered throughout the site
> that contain part information.  This information consists of pictures,
> tables, and very little text.  I was wondering it's good for SEO to convert
> those PDF's to web pages...meaning I take all the content from the pdfs and
> lay them out on a page.  Then I would include the pdfs as a printer friendly
> version.  I know this is good for usability, since a PDF is not site
> navigation.  But is it good for SEO?  And if I do this, do I need to tell
> crawlers to quit indexing pdf's so they don't show up in search results (I
> would want the user to see the web page result, not the pdf result.)
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Justin Lui
>
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