If there is a link on your site or in the sitemap to the pdf's it will probably crawl them. Maybe you could put them on a pdf sharing site instead and just send the visitors there instead. Personally I wouldn't worry too much about the odd page that is off topic.

Unless the pdf is in googledocs, i doubt Google would spider a pdf, and then ocr it thus avoiding the non indexed text in the image to be suddenly made available.

Yes, Google does crawl and index text in PDFs, assuming the text was done in some sort of word processor rather than just text in an image.

Here's a nice little pdf search engine powered by Google. - http://www.pdfsearchengine.org/

Google will definitely find the text and any links within the pdf. If you don't want it indexed I'd just throw it elsewhere and adjust your robots.txt as appropriate.

BP

Yes, they do index and crawl pdf pages. There's a whole separate section in their search engine to look for pdf files as well.

Yes, I believe. Even google many times crawl text of flash files too...

Can you post the link to the pdf on a page that specifically addresses the content of the ebook? That would cushion the difference between the content of your site and the pdf's content.

Wow - I guess that answers that lol.. Looks like the Big G leave's no stone unturned. Well I think I am just going to market it separately after I've thought about it anyway so I keep the focus of the site what it should be. Instead of attempting the low result 'everything to everyone' concept, I think I need to keep my site on laser focused track, although it would have been nice to tap some of my visitors for the other stuff.

Regardless, I thank everyone for their responses. It's incredible just how encompassing Google is. I guess that's why they're #1.

Kind regards to all!

Randall