Google Crawl Question

[Little_Dragon]

Will Google and other SEs be able to crawl word and PDF documents in my site?

J

[Little_Dragon]

Google can index Word/PDF's without a problem.

[Little_Dragon]

They definately crawl index and index .pdf's as I get a lot of traffic from those
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&c2....pdf&meta=

I think that Word Documents are indexed however to tell you the truth, all my experience is with SEOing pdf's

[Little_Dragon]

Awesome.

thx

[Brave Boy]

Google Facts & Fiction (http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html)

Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.)
Fact: At Google, we are able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. File types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml, cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri.




why PHP is not included?

[Little_Dragon]

PHP is too obvious, I suppose

Exactly...They don't list html either but you know those are indexed

[Little_Dragon]

Actually, I cut the quote off somehow. Here it is:

Fiction: Sites aren't included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file type.)
Fact: At Google, we're able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. A sampling of the file extensions we're able to index includes: pdf, asp, jsp, html, shtml, xml, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri, swf, cfm, and php.

[fransome]

True minstrel.
So is Google crawling this PDF files?
I belive, it does.

[Little_Dragon]

Actually, I cut the quote off somehow. Here it is:
So now your doctoring quotes, eh? Don't you know how I feel about that?

[fransome]

So is Google crawling this PDF files?
Yes. Crawling and indexing them.