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Re: Search Engines and PDF web site content ?

  • Subject: Re: Search Engines and PDF web site content ?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:27:24 +0000
  • Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
  • References: <d0hk3t$cck$1@panix5.panix.com> <1110201580.5b68e15d257e03e79a95c7f3d73113d1@teranews>
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Paul Silver wrote:

> Al Dykes wrote:
>> If I put PDF documents on my website for user viewing how do I get
>> the content of the PDF files made visible to the  indexing services ?
> 
> As long as they are available on your website from normal links (i.e.
> you don't have to fill out a form to get to them) the search engine
> spiders will find and read them just like they do your normal web pages.

That's correct. I don't know, however, if PDF's are indexed/re-indexed less
frequently than HTML and text files.

If your PDF was generated from a LaTeX file, put the .tex file in the same
directory as the PDF. Several crawlers appear to make use of it.

Roy

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