Question about Links from PDF Documents

[foshizzle]

Hey guys... I am planning to create PDF / Powerpoint documents with links to my sites to further broaden my backlink profiles...

So far I know about

scribd.com
slideshare.net
docsctoc.com
authorstream.com
edocr.com
issuu.com
screencast.com

do you know of more sites like these?

I wonder if it is a good or a bad idea to publish my website content as PDF files online?! Can this hurt my site?
Or is it better to create unique articles for every file I upload?

Thanks

 

[ferma231]

docstoc.com
issuu.com
slidershare.net
slideboom.com
edocr.com
yudu.com
empressr.com

I hope this helps

 

[ferma231]

I wonder if it is a good or a bad idea to publish my website content as PDF files online?! Can this hurt my site?
Or is it better to create unique articles for every file I upload?

I think it wont hurt your ranks, because imagine if you make PDF file , and people share your PDF on other website, they wont change content , + you get backlink, i dont think that you need unique content for each published PDF or word document

 

[FireTheWild]

It is a whitehat method so it is safe.

 

[foshizzle]

I am just wondering if it could somehow degrade my site (that is currently at #1 for my main KW) if I publish a duplicate article from my money site via pdf on a domain that might have more authority / higher pr?!

 

[apoorv]

http://www.calameo.com/ is decent. PDFCast.org is good (no registration!) too. Apart from that, the list you guys have collected above would be more than sufficient.

There are some that actually give you a link from the description; for the rest, you can get links from the profiles. I mostly post to 4-5 and that's enough. Gets indexed really, really fast and gives you some diversity.

 

[ronmojohny]

I am just wondering if it could somehow degrade my site (that is currently at #1 for my main KW) if I publish a duplicate article from my money site via pdf on a domain that might have more authority / higher pr?!

Yes it could. If it aint broke, don't fix it! Google is first and foremost a document search engine. You NEVER want to put duplicate content from your money site out on the web. Write a unique article for each of the document sharing sites. (but don't post them all on the same day)