After reading all of googles info for webmasters, I have a question that hopefully somebody else can answer.
On our site, we offer tons and tons of free information in the form of pdf's. It is a child safety site, and rather than create page after page of one page fact sheets, we simply allow parents to download full versions of our books.
As of now, the downloads are set through a stat-track system, and inside a downloads folder that is on our FTP server. They are linked through a link to an address, which is the location inside that folder.
My question is, is there a right way or a wrong way to do PDF's? I am afraid we may be hurting our content rankings by doing that. We have more information than just about every other safety site out there, but it is in the form of PDF's. Will the search engines be able to crawl through them like this, and relate the content to our site? Or should we include teasers or chapters in html on the site as well? I know PDF's get listed, but I'm just not sure about whether there is a right or wrong way for them to be included for the spiders to catch em.
My site is www.keepyourchildsafe.org, if anyone can check it out and tell me whether or not the PDF's we offer are formatted in a way so that their content is noticed by the spiders.
http://keepyourchildsafe.org/sexual_...prevention.asp, is a page with several pdf's on it, in case it is necessary to check.
Anyone whose had experience in this matter, or might be willing to take a moment and let me know if things are correct, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Joe. |
