How Does Google View PDFs?

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I've got a lot of experience in my newest niche and I'm writing "how-to" guides for my newest website. Generally the work isn't done while you're sitting around looking at a computer so I was thinking of offering the how-tos on my website as normally viewed webpages then offering them again as PDFs so people can save them and use them on mobile devices. But I'm curious as to how Google views PDFs. I'd like to rank to page that will contain all the PDFs, but I don't want to get nailed with a duplicate content penalty for having all of the how-tos on the site twice. I have an alternative option, but having them as PDFs would be ideal if Google won't get me for duplicate content. Does anyone have any experience with something like this?
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  • That's not anywhere close to duplicate content.

    In fact, regarding pdf files, it's exactly how google tells you
    to do it, although you are going backwards, if you will.

    It is always great to have an html version of pdf content
    and make sure it can be viewed or seen as text using the
    right character format.

    In other words, google says do a pdf if you wish, but make sure text and
    html copy is available (or readable). In your case, you are
    putting text as pdf. Same difference.

    Be sure and slap your website urls in them and tell people to pass
    them along!

    Great idea, actually.

    Paul
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    • Thanks man. I just wasn't sure if Google read the PDFs and compared them to the html pages. Good to know I can go ahead with this idea And I'll be sure to slap my URL in there
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    How Does Google View PDFs?

    I've got a lot of experience in my newest niche and I'm writing "how-to" guides for my newest website. Generally the work isn't done while you're sitting around looking at a computer so I was thinking of offering the how-tos on my website as normally viewed webpages then offering them again as PDFs so people can save them and use them on mobile devices. But I'm curious as to how Google views PDFs. I'd like to rank to page that will contain all the PDFs, but I don't want to get nailed with a duplicate content penalty for having all of the how-tos on the site twice. I have an alternative option, but having them as PDFs would be ideal if Google won't get me for duplicate content. Does anyone have any experience with something like this?