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A couple of questions about pdfs on a website

by dougkpga
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I have a friend who has a series of pdfs on his site.

They are scans of articles he has had published in offline magazines.

They are available to download and read in a new window.

Does google credit this content?

If a .jpg of the image was ont he page would this be better?

Or is it better to type the content and use the pics with alt text?



Also does his forum help his ranking at all?

He has 2000 members and maybe 600 topics.


Thanks for any help.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kim Davis
    Google doesn't read pictures, it reads text. It would be better to type out the content and use alt text for the images.
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  • Profile picture of the author dougkpga
    Thanks a lot Kim, I thought that was the case, thanks for confirming.

    Any thoughts about the forum content please?
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  • Profile picture of the author PhilipSEO
    [quote=dougkpga;2398886]I have a friend who has a series of pdfs on his site.

    They are scans of articles he has had published in offline magazines.

    They are available to download and read in a new window.

    Does google credit this content? [quote]

    What kind of scans are they? If OCR (optical character recognition) was used, then the PDFs contain text which Google can parse. But if they are simply photos of the original, then Google does not recognize them as text content.

    If a .jpg of the image was ont he page would this be better
    No, that would be a waste of text content.

    Or is it better to type the content and use the pics with alt text?
    Regular text content is by far the best option. While Google can parse textual PDFs, simple HTML is the best choice.

    Also does his forum help his ranking at all?

    He has 2000 members and maybe 600 topics.
    This cannot be answered without more information. What do you mean by "help his ranking"? Any content has some potential potential to rank for certain keywords, but any details depend on how things are set up and what the objective is.
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  • Profile picture of the author dougkpga
    Thanks for the great replies.

    The guy is a golf pro trying to rank for golf school.

    Even if he did have content that could be read, the site is a dog's breakfast.

    (the pdfs are not OCR).

    I think if I sort out his content he wont need the forum to work for him as his articles are very good (if they are seen by Google lol).
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