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doc sharing sites noob question ._.

by Deadbeatcobra
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ok guys ive been doing some research on this but i cant seem to get no answer to my question, search engines cant read videos, but what about doc sharing sites ? like slide share and docstoc ? can they read the document ? im asking this because of the border they are in, and also the fact that when there is a hyper link in them it and you put your mouse over it, it wont show the destination on the taskbar.

any input would be useful guys
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    Originally Posted by Deadbeatcobra View Post

    ok guys ive been doing some research on this but i cant seem to get no answer to my question, search engines cant read videos, but what about doc sharing sites ? like slide share and docstoc ? can they read the document ? im asking this because of the border they are in, and also the fact that when there is a hyper link in them it and you put your mouse over it, it wont show the destination on the taskbar.

    any input would be useful guys
    It depends, if the doc is behind a password they can't read it. It also depends on how the content is served, if its using javascript to display the content its likely that search engines will have difficulty spidering it.
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  • Profile picture of the author susinggih
    Perhaps this won't answer your question, but I've seen so many times that google showing pdf and doc search results. So I think so.
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    google has stated that they attempt to (and usually can) crawl flash content, pdfs, and other documents. just as they also claim they attempt to interpret javascript (to a point). doc sites rank very well. I do not doubt that they crawl, index, and rank the contents of some documents (when they can)

    However, they will comment on weather or not links within documents, flash, or javascript "pass page rank".thefore weather or not links in the documents hold any seo benifit seems to still be a mystery
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    • Profile picture of the author Deadbeatcobra
      ok i that kinda clears things up a bit... i often see doc sharing site in the top every once in a while but the description is from the summery not the actual document. but the reason i was asking this was because ive seen the same article with different titles in different sharing sites rank very high,

      im not big on duplicate content, but can you upload the same doc to multiple sharing sites and have google index most of them under different titles ?
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    man i upl,oad the same doc to many docsites with the same title and google usually indexes all of them

    on another note docstoc, slideshare, and scribd rank very very well. docstoc best for me, i have got docstoc on the front page with very little effort. i get good traffic from them too. all and all i have to say doc sites are a great tool for me
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    • Profile picture of the author Deadbeatcobra
      Originally Posted by aandersen View Post

      man i upl,oad the same doc to many docsites with the same title and google usually indexes all of them

      on another note docstoc, slideshare, and scribd rank very very well. docstoc best for me, i have got docstoc on the front page with very little effort. i get good traffic from them too. all and all i have to say doc sites are a great tool for me
      thanks i like i said im not to found of duplicate content but what ever makes things easier every now and then helps, one more question how many sites do you submit the same doc ? i have around 25 sites and wondering if i should mix it up with around 2 or 3 articles instead of one article on 25 sites
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  • Profile picture of the author rovad
    I must admit I never thought about getting traffic with doc sites.

    That's why it's good to visit forums, you naturally stop thinking outside the box once when you have certain setup in place and running.
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    i probably use about 25 also (dont have the list with me right now)

    if you have 2 or 3 articles you can mix it up but i would do like this.

    most of these sites (10 > )do not give a backlink on the document's page/description but a few of them do. so on the sites that do give a backlink on the document's page/description i would upload all of the documents so that you get seperate pages with backlinks on them.

    then on the rest of the sites just mix it around randomly

    also remember that almost every one of these sites gives a link in the profile so make sure you leave one there
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