Google indexing PDF's

[voipme]

Hello,

We work heavily on E-commerce SEO and recently Google has started to index PDF pages (Datasheets) added to the product pages instead of the actual product pages. Has anyone else noticed this at all?

Seems to have got worse over the last month or so.

Thanks

[jesse-landry]

Yes, Google crawls PDFs but I don't think they crawl them "instead" of html. If anything, perhaps your PDFs are better optimized for the popular keywords than the pages..?

As for your question, no I have not noticed any changes in the way Google crawls PDFs. I personally made the decision a few months ago to no-crawl our PDF folder to avoid them being indexed as I saw no reason for it.

I friggin hate PDFs and if it wasn't for certain members of certain departments of a certain company using certain browsers like a certain Internet Explorer 7 and demanding certain PDFs to send to certain clients I certainly would never use them.

Whew.

[EGOL]

Did you know that some shopping cart buttons can be embedded in pdf documents?

You can also place links in your pdf documents to direct traffic to product pages.

Or you can extract the info from pdf documents and publish it on the bottom of your product pages.