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Turning Your Blog Into a PDF e-book? (Duplicate Content / Link Bait)

by justlukeyou
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Hi,

Lets say you have a blog based on anything from vacuum cleaners, skateboards or holidays in Germany is it possible to turn it into a PDF e-book which you can distribute?

What I'm planning to do is to:

1. Copy and Paste my latest 30 posts and into a book.
2. Add a nice front cover with a catchy title.
3. Upload the PDF to my site
4. Distribute links to a page which hosts the e-book on my website.

However, I haven't done anything like this before and I want to know if I am doing it correctly and if it is worth while.

I am concerned that I will be duplicating the content on my site which Google can read and penalise my site because I have diplicated content on my own site.
#bait #blog #content #duplicate #ebook #link #pdf #turning
  • Profile picture of the author guillaumejd
    To edit the content use a word editor like OpenOffice. Print to PDF with adobe PDF creator then zip the PDF so its not indexable by search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author justlukeyou
    Hi,

    But do I want to offer it as zip file? People will be turned off by that wont they?

    Is it worth doing this whole process for the backlinks?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      A pdf file may be backlinks. A zipfile, well, that's crazy
      in 2013.

      It's not duplicate content. In fact, google tells you to
      have a pdf and web text version of the same content,
      if you plan on doing pdf. Your case is a tad different. You
      want to go the other way.

      I can't even see a single need to have a pdf file download
      by zipfile.

      I did mention this is 2013. How about an app?
      Now you're talking like it aint 1999.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author justlukeyou
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        A pdf file may be backlinks. A zipfile, well, that's crazy
        in 2013.

        It's not duplicate content. In fact, google tells you to
        have a pdf and web text version of the same content,
        if you plan on doing pdf. Your case is a tad different. You
        want to go the other way.

        I can't even see a single need to have a pdf file download
        by zipfile.

        I did mention this is 2013. How about an app?
        Now you're talking like it aint 1999.

        Paul
        Thanks,

        I shall try transferring it into a PDF. I would like to have an app one day.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Zips aren't crazy in 2013, lol, they serve a purpose for file types that aren't web friendly, multiple files/file types in a bulk download, or for branding with internet shortcut inside the zip. I use zip files everyday & have been for years.

    OP is working with a single web friendly file type (pdf) so unless s/he's including additional content in a single download, s/he probably doesn't need a zip file.

    Here's a post I made a while back:

    [source]
    A pdf has a Google Cache the same as an HTML web page can have a Google Cache, it's basically a web page.

    Here's an example of a PR2 pdf with a Google Cache (link here).

    This is at the top of the Google Cache of the example PR2 pdf (link above):
    Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web.
    I would use a canonical tag & tell Google which page is most important for the SERPs.
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