Google Analytics - Links to blocked PDFs killing my keywords
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Google Webmaster tools showed me all of a sudden that my keywords were changed from my specific keywords to random words like 'choose' and 'push'. Upon further investigation, Webmaster tools showed me that Google was not only linking my PDFs (we have instruction manuals on our site) but was reading them and using the words in the PDF files, changed my keywords to the words that appeared most often in the PDF files which were more than the keywords on our site.
So, I block the PDF directory in robots.txt and within a week or so the keywords from the PDF files are gone and my keywords are back, and so is our rank on page 1 for most of our keywords.
Everything is fine until the problem comes back... Turns out that, again according to Webmaster Tools, if a page or link is linked to from another site, even if our robots.txt is blocking the files and/or directory from being crawled, links to the PDFs have caused them to be read by Google and the keywords are switched back to the multiple useless words found by Google in the PDF file.
Wow -- what a great way to destroy someone's keywords.
So, how do I fix this??? I can't block the URL as Google advises that it returns a 404 error which means deleting the PDF which I can't do. I can change the filename of the PDFs and enter a 'delete url' on Google, but the linked sites will eventually find the new PDF file and relink to it.
Anyone experience something like this before? Any ideas how to fix this problem?
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yukon Banned-
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