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Search webpage by text from a file that is linked to it

by Dvir Shavit
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Hi

Background
I have articles, And I have my website.
In my website only members can download the articles PDF for free by clicking "Download" button.
The articles' files doesn't stay in the download page.. so when a member clicks on "Download" it links to the file URL opens "save window".

What's the problem?
When I search a full paragraph from an article in Google it doesn't find my page at all.
Even though i allowed Google robots (in the Robots.txt file) to crawl my website including the articles files.

My question
I understand that the problem can be easily solved by hiding the article text in the page.
By hiding I mean to set html block to be hidden and put all the text inside it.
Or maybe setting the font size to 0 so now one can see it but it will still be indexed.
I read some and understood that these methods are notorious and even may be illegal.
I'm open minded for better solutions then mine that will help my readers find the download page.

Thanks!
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    Originally Posted by Dvir Shavit View Post

    Hi

    Background
    I have articles, And I have my website.
    In my website only members can download the articles PDF for free by clicking "Download" button.
    The articles' files doesn't stay in the download page.. so when a member clicks on "Download" it links to the file URL opens "save window".

    What's the problem?
    When I search a full paragraph from an article in Google it doesn't find my page at all.
    Even though i allowed Google robots (in the Robots.txt file) to crawl my website including the articles files.

    My question
    I understand that the problem can be easily solved by hiding the article text in the page.
    By hiding I mean to set html block to be hidden and put all the text inside it.
    Or maybe setting the font size to 0 so now one can see it but it will still be indexed.
    I read some and understood that these methods are notorious and even may be illegal.
    I'm open minded for better solutions then mine that will help my readers find the download page.

    Thanks!


    I'm not sure what your problem is or what exactly is your question but I can tell you that changing a font size does nothing for Google or ranking pages. If you need proof look at the Google cache (text version) of your webpage, poof... there's all your text plain as day.

    Do a site:domain.com/exact-url-here search on Google Search and make sure your page is indexed. You should see one web-page when searching an exact internal URL.
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