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I did not know that about SEOmoz.  I guess I need to work on getting more points!

Thanks Mark, what I'm trying to get people's opinion on is whether it would be considered people "paying for links" if I give them followed links on my site that are not explicitly paid for (i.e. not in their advertisements).

Most companies I have done advertising with in the past have allowed follow links in profiles, press releases, etc. , but I've also encountered those that no follow everything and told me they were doing it to protect themselves from getting penalized by Google.

I wonder if they were scared of being penalized, or just wanted to sculpt PR and keep it all on their site?

Oleg- Thanks for the answer.  I should be more clear with the question.  All user submitted links will be set at "no follow".  I was interested in what to do about company profile pages, product pages and press releases which we will enter and/or approve.

If I run a site that charges other companies for listing their products, running banner advertisements, white paper downloads, etc. does it make sense to "no follow" all of their links on my site?

For example: they receive a profile page, product pages and are allowed to post press releases.  Should all of their links on these pages be "no follow"?

It seems like a gray area to me because the explicit advertisements will definitely be "no followed" and they are not buying links, but buying exposure.

However, I still don't know the common practice for links from other parts of their "package".

Thanks

Kyle,

Thanks for the quick response.  The data is being displayed in the title and meta description field.  I also did some searches for specific terms with my parameter search from our site and filetype:pdf, which shows that the content is being indexed.  It also shows that the PDF titles and meta descriptions are not optimized, so I have some work there.

Thanks,

Anthony

I've searched extensively for this, but could not find a definitive answer.

We recently updated our website and it contains links to about 30 PDF data sheets. I want to determine if the text from these PDFs is being archived by search engines.

When I do this search http://bit.ly/rRYJPe  (google - site:www.gamma-sci.com and filetype:pdf) I can see that the PDF urls are getting indexed, but does that mean that their content is getting indexed?

I have read in other posts/places that if you can copy text from a PDF and paste it that means Google can index the content.  When I try this with PDFs from our site I cannot copy text, but I was told that these PDFs were all created from Word docs, so they should be indexable, correct?

Since WordPress has you upload PDFs like they are an image could this be causing the problem?

Would it make sense to take the time and extract all of the PDF content to html?

Thanks for any assistance, this has been driving me crazy.

I did not know that about SEOmoz.  I guess I need to work on getting more points!