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doc and pdf on first 4 result in google

by dexture
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HI warrior (i am not saying i am expert i am new bie )

I have one site with domain riskdegerlendirmesi****com and keyword risk degerlendirmesi
İ know EMD still work so ihave one plus point to rank this site.
2nd thing if you google this keyword in google.com.tr you will see first four result
with docs and pdf.but the page rank of these sıte is high.
will it be easy to rank this keyword? bcz the top pages are pdf and doc ?
#doc #google #pdf #result
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Doesn't matter what the file format is (HTML, PDF, Doc, etc...), a PDF is basically the same thing as a web page when it comes to SEO (backlinks, pagerank, Google cache).

    Do the research & check the external backlinks & If there's any other internal pages for the ranked page/domain that's also targeting the same keyword or very similar keyword phrase.

    You have to do your own competition research, all anyone else can do is guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author dalegolden
    Are those doc files or pdf's from any doc sharing website or from any other website? Doc sharing sites are web 2.0 sites and they gets ranking easily for fairly low competition keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author trade4861
    I personally think that Google has made it that pdf files will not rank as well as an actual web page unless people are linking to it heavily.

    Also, I’m thinking that doc sites like Scribd don’t have the power they use to. Seems like its much harder to get a page to rank on scribd now...unless people are linking to it.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by trade4861 View Post

      I personally think that Google has made it that pdf files will not rank as well as an actual web page unless people are linking to it heavily.
      Yep, that's how SEO works regardless of any file type that can have a Google cache.

      Google even points out on the cache, the page has been converted to an HTML page.

      [Google Cache of PDF]
      This is the html version of the file http://www.naic.org/documents/consumer_guide_auto.pdf.
      Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web.
      BTW, that PDF (cache link above) is a PR5.
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