[Help] How to get PDF's indexed by Google?

[petertang]

For google search console, unfortunately, you can only claim and verify the domain under your control, and you can only crawl url that are in a domain under your control.

Google has a new rule that limits how many crawling you can request per day, I think around 10 to 15 or so roughly.

When you go claim the domain, it will ask you to put a google tag on your site. You have two choices, 1) add the html tag to the header of your homepage, or 2) link the google search console with google analytics. You will see it, google will walk you through it.

Do note that if the pdf is NOT in your domain, you can't crawl it directly, then you have to use the buffer.

e.g. You create a blogspot account, and post the links on a page, then you submit the sitemap on the blogspot, etc... Google will crawl all sitemap, then that page containing the pdf will get indexed, and the content within that one be crawled. It will be slower than direct google url inspection, but if you have no control of the domain where the pdf is on, that's the only way.

 

[petertang]

Oh and one more thing, you won't be able to do url inspection on a domain not verifed by google as you being the owner, google will not allow the inspection.

 

[IMMFROMPORTUGAL]

For google search console, unfortunately, you can only claim and verify the domain under your control, and you can only crawl url that are in a domain under your control.

Google has a new rule that limits how many crawling you can request per day, I think around 10 to 15 or so roughly.

When you go claim the domain, it will ask you to put a google tag on your site. You have two choices, 1) add the html tag to the header of your homepage, or 2) link the google search console with google analytics. You will see it, google will walk you through it.

Do note that if the pdf is NOT in your domain, you can't crawl it directly, then you have to use the buffer.

e.g. You create a blogspot account, and post the links on a page, then you submit the sitemap on the blogspot, etc... Google will crawl all sitemap, then that page containing the pdf will get indexed, and the content within that one be crawled. It will be slower than direct google url inspection, but if you have no control of the domain where the pdf is on, that's the only way.

ís this still working? I remember seeing people saying it's not as good as before.

 

[BlackShield]

Expecting immediate ranking of a PDF file is difficult these days.

Optimization of title and Meta Description for PDF files is as important as the web page.

 

[clarice]

Go to Index at Advanced Processing > Current Document and choose Create Full Text Indexes from the drop-down list to build a new index or update an existing one.

 

[petertang]

Oh indexing through buffer is still healthy and well. The goal is to have google crawl the document so that they know it exists. Of course fastest is url inspection at the search console, it's usual instant, but if you have no control of the domain where the doc is on, i.e. you are not verified owner of the domain, then your only choice is to index it through the buffer.

But sometimes you create a whole bunch of backlinks using a submit bot or through fiverr, or microworkers or some other means, etc... you want to scan through the list and create a blacklinks index, you can also do it through the buffer as well.

Again the goal is to have google crawl what you have created as soon as possible. As to how to do it, you can choose your own poison.

 

[guhuuljot]

how can we make meta tags for this pdf??

I am the only one missing here???

 

[achiever2011]

There were some niche shares about this on bhw itself but I cannot find something new for you.

 

[petertang]

why don't you put the pdf on a normal page, so you can probably add meta tags to it.

 

[nelida kornilova]

For google search console, unfortunately, you can only claim and verify the domain under your control, and you can only crawl url that are in a domain under your control.

Google has a new rule that limits how many crawling you can request per day, I think around 10 to 15 or so roughly.

When you go claim the domain, it will ask you to put a google tag on your site. You have two choices, 1) add the html tag to the header of your homepage, or 2) link the google search console with google analytics. You will see it, google will walk you through it.

Do note that if the pdf is NOT in your domain, you can't crawl it directly, then you have to use the buffer.

e.g. You create a blogspot account, and post the links on a page, then you submit the sitemap on the blogspot, etc... Google will crawl all sitemap, then that page containing the pdf will get indexed, and the content within that one be crawled. It will be slower than direct google url inspection, but if you have no control of the domain where the pdf is on, that's the only way.

talking about using the buffer as url submit so is it harmful to simply post the links on a page within our site where google spider will automatically crawl the sitemap xml frequently as long as our site is updated with the content containing some links only

 

[petertang]

oh if you control the domain where the pdf is on, just resubmit the sitemap.xml. Only if you do not control the domain, then you need to submit the crawling using a buffer.

if you are talking about how to use a buffer to index spammy links to your secondary properties, that's something else.

and never backlink spammy links to your money site, it will hurt your dr, and probably da score of your money site. Always use a secondary property like google g site or blogspot, both are owned by google, and google can't decrease google da and dr, so you are safe.