best way to have PRINT version of content?

[Terry Crim]

I have a SEO related question when it comes to having a Print version of a post / article.

Which is better?

1:
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www.somedomain.com/blog/my-happy-article.php?v=print

Which would show the content without the CSS template, so it is easy for printing. This is same URL to article just with a variable attached at the end.


2:
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www.somedomain.com/blog/print/my-happy-article.php

Same as #1 above but altering the URL and now there would be TWO URL's to get to the same content. One with and without /print/ in the url.



3:
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www.somedomain.com/blog/my-happy-article.txt

OR

www.somedomain.com/blog/print/my-happy-article.txt

Having a separate file in TEXT format so now there are TWO versions of the content one for browser and one a straight text file.

With this option would it be better to have /print/ added so it gives a clue as to purpose?


FYI: There will also be a PDF version of same content for download, linked from the post page.

From an SEO stand point, what is the best solution to having multiple versions of the same content on site? The content itself is exactly the same just in different visual layout, html vs non-html etc...

Thanks.

- T

[yukon]

I think this list of filetypes that Google supports will help you out.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35287

The pdf filetype is the most common alternitive to html when trying to rank in the SERPs. I like pdf simply because we can add internal hyperlinks + images. Make sure to use keyword anchor-text inside the pdf, & when linking to the pdf from internal pages on your site.

[Terry Crim]

I am creating a PRINT version of the page, I need to know from an SEO stand point how to set it up.

The PDF version is a separate thing.


Thanks.

- T

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Terry Crim

I am creating a PRINT version of the page, I need to know from an SEO stand point how to set it up.

The PDF version is a separate thing.


Thanks.

- T

If you want to go 100% text, then it's simply a .txt file like from windows Notepad, etc...

I have a Wordpress recipe site, & I run the WP-Print plugin [here] on that site. The print page is simply a clean looking html page with my recipes in plain text. I did a few small plugin edits for that site.

I also did a Nofollow + Noindex on the print page so that I could control which page Google displays in the SERPs, I didn't want G to throw my regular WP-Post into supplemental SERPs for duplicate content on the same site.

Here are some examples of .txt files in Google SERPs, the keyword in the search is car, change to whatever for more examples.

car filetype:txt

The hyperlink will look like this, with a .txt extension.

hxxp://mr2.com/TEXT/newcarfaq.txt

As far as seo, about the only things you can do is:

1) Keywords in the text file.

2) Internal/External hyperlinks with keyword anchor-text on your site or backlinks from other web pages.

3) Name your .txt file with keywords (example: .../keyword1-keyword2.txt).

[Terry Crim]

Yeah, but what I am asking about is the SEO aspect of the URL itself.

Which is the 3 formats above would be best from a SEO standpoint and with the duplicate content on one site issue.

Thanks,

- T