On page content and PDF - Dup?
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Hi
We are writing a useful article which we want to put on our site, but we also want to add it as a pdf which people can download - will this be classed as dup copy?
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You can also read what Google suggest on how to tackle this problem here
Basically, you can add a rel=canonical tag to both a PDF and HTML documents to help overcome this issue.
Andy
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Hi Jason,
This topic has been covered before with some great view points on this
http://www.seomoz.org/q/can-pdf-be-seen-as-duplicate-content-if-so-how-to-prevent-it
I hope you don't mind me directing you to this topic!
Hope it helps,
Mark
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