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Sean- You are getting no link juice if they click on the PDF but you are getting some link juice if they link to the page...... It would make more sense, for SEO value, if you had the contents of the PDF on a page and then on that page you had the option to link to the PDF. Then people would be linking to the page that would allow you to get the link juice and the SEO value from the content.  More value for your efforts.......more SEO value from the additional content that Google cant index in your PDF. Hope this helps.. Mark

Hello SKE, I've dealt with this or similar situations several times and have found the following to be the best course of action: 1. Report the scraper site to Google using the DMCA complaint form: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?pli=1& 2. Take measures to protect yourself against future scrapers. http://www.affiliatebeginnersguide.com/articles/block_bots.html http://www.seomoz.org/blog/postpanda-your-original-content-is-being-outranked-by-scrapers-amp-partners Good luck!

Actually, bounce rate would be of a concern to search engines, at least for visits that originate from the search engine. The SEs want the users to have a good experience, and if a user clicks on a result and then comes right back to the results page, the SEs may feel that the user did not have a good experience with that result and maybe a different result for that query should be shown.