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Not search engine readable, big setback

May 27, 2012 6:00 AM

When we add one of our research reports online, they are not readable.  In order to get the content onto our site we have to eport as text and then plant it in text to the webpage...

 

If it can export the text shouldnt it be able to read it too??  Seems like the same technology

 

 

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930 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: Dave Merchant, Oct 6, 2012 1:49 AM
 
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  • Bernd Alheit
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    1. Bernd Alheit,
    May 29, 2012 11:03 AM   in reply to StressingOut
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    What is your feature request?

     
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  • StressingOut
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    2. StressingOut,
    Oct 6, 2012 1:43 AM   in reply to StressingOut
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    Basically when we put our reports up like this example here [ link removed by forum host ] (I know this will be taken down.. that is fine, only for explanation reasons)

     

    The research reports that we write have anywhere from 1500-2000 words of great content, but when we put it up on our site the content is not searchable by the crawlers.   So the only way for us to utilize teh content is to pull it out by exporting to text and then dropping the content under the report pdf's...  This ends up looking unprofessional to people coming to the site so we end up just leaving the content off of the page.  It seems to me like since you can export the content to a text file that there would have to be a way to add in that functionality to make the actual "text" content searchable by the web...  Does that make sense?

     

    Thanks In Advance

     
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  • Test Screen Name
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    3. Test Screen Name,
    Jul 28, 2012 6:20 PM   in reply to StressingOut
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    I looked at the page but it doesn't seem to be a PDF, or link to any PDF files. What is the bit that needs to be indexed?

     
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  • MichaelKazlow
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    4. MichaelKazlow,
    Oct 5, 2012 4:01 PM   in reply to StressingOut
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    Google has no issue with indexing pdfs that contain text (as opposed to scans).

     
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  • Dave Merchant
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    5. Dave Merchant,
    Oct 6, 2012 1:49 AM   in reply to StressingOut
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    As TSN says, there aren't any obvious PDF files on that page, only a series of JPEG images of the report pages (which I assume you have exported from the PDF file). Images cannot  be indexed by search engines, they only store text in their databases.

     

    • If you link to the PDF file itself, and it has no user password (i.e. no security to prevent the file being opened) then it will usually be indexed by the major search engines.
    • If you apply a user password but leave the metadata in plain text, that will be indexed even though the rest of the content is not.
    • An owner password (preventing alteration) may or may not block indexing, it depends on the settings you choose and the particular search engine.
    • If the PDF file is a scan and hasn't been OCRed there is of course nothing to index.
     
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