Is Adobe Acrobat the best for making PDF documents in terms of seo and price?
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As we add PDF documents to our website, I want to take it up a notch.
In terms of seo and software price, is Adobe Acrobat the only choice?
Thanks!
No Mac here.
I should clarify that I can convert files to PDFs with Microsoft Word and add some basic info for the search engines such as title, keywords, author, and links.
This article inspired me:
I can add links back to the page when I create the PDF, but we also have specific product PDFs that suppliers let us copy and serve from our server--why use their bandwidth.
Much as you would stamp your name on a hard copy brochure the vendor supplies, I want to add a link to our page from those PDFs.
That makes me think I should ask our supplier to give me a version with a link to our page.
Then there is the question: is that ok to do?
In the meantime, I will check TriviaChicken's suggestions and dream about a Mac, Allan.
Thanks
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I have a Mac and I use Pages to make my articles and them save them as a PDF. I'm pretty sure you can do this with Open Office as well.
Adobe Acrobat is expensive! I'm pretty sure you don't need to spend the money on it!
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For years I have used free software (both OpenOffice.org and PDFreDirect) to make .PDFs - I am unaware of any special reason why Acrobat would be needed to make .PDFs SEO-wise.
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If you use a mac, "Preview" will be just as good as Adobe Acrobat Pro - but free!
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