Comments on: PPP or Pay Per PDF White Paper

By: EDevMachine

EDevMachine — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:02:14 +0000

SE indexing of Flash isn’t even totally there yet, gonna be a while longer for PDFs. Ultimately, I wouldn’t see much of point using PDFs. Everything a PDF can do, html can do…simple as that. One advantage PDF may currently have though is that they do seem to convey more “trust” (that is whether paid advertising or not, PDFs carry more authority IMHO to the user).

But
a)there’s the indexing problem,
b)if and when PPP becomes wide-spread PDFs will lose whatever autority they currently convey and therefore negate their only advantage.

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By: Gas Saver Guide

Gas Saver Guide — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:26:15 +0000

I experimented with PDFs for SERPs a little while ago but the success was unnoticeable, maybe I jut didnt stick with it long enough?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:52:39 +0000

Hi Matt,
It’s always a balancing act between reporting conclusions and discussing data. While I have no real qualms about releasing the data it would without terms of reference and explanation of each test be totally meaningless much like me saying the answer to the question was 4. Instead I choose to explain the methodology in enough detail that others can choose to replicate the experiments and then draw the conclusions if I had to explain the method, the results and the data as well as draw conclusions the posts would be pages long and I have neither the time or the inclination to do so.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:26:20 +0000

What is next now? It was Flash, PDF…maybe Word documents?
These are the kind of experiments I would like to see the real data ..but I am not sure they will show it to the public, right?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:01:35 +0000

Franck

To be honest I would nofollow them. This is more use providing affiliates with free branded PDFs, that contain affiliate links that in some way you 301 redirect so you get the juice

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:58:31 +0000

This was a great post. I have a top ranking for the keyword affiliate marketing for almost one year now, and I’ve just added two links on the home page for my pdf.

I hope it won’t hurt.

By: Bozzer

Bozzer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:25:59 +0000

Another great thing about PDFs is that you have more places than just the WWW to market them. You can get them out on file sharing software in order to provide another source of traffic and people may even ’steal’ them and stick them up on their own websites which is a great source of free links if it works.

Just hashed together a quick post about this here: http://seo-expert-marketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/link-building-with-pdfs.html

By: Pierre

Pierre — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:28:57 +0000

Do PDF really worth for SEO ?
PDF files are usually presents in the SERPs only for long tail searches.

By: val

val — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:38:51 +0000

PDF is already a great tool to begin with. However, additional features like live links will be definitely an awesome add-on.