John Mueller: So if we are not able to index those pages then either we are having trouble finding the links to those PDF files which might be because they are hard to find on the website or maybe they are not in static HTML or they have a nofollow link or something like that. With regards to the indexing of PDF files, if we see links to those pages, we will try to index those pages to get them into the search results. But that doesn’t sound like your problem. What probably will happen with PDFs is that we don’t much refresh them as quickly as normal HTML pages because we assume that the PDF files stay stable. John Mueller: In general we index PDF files like we would like other normal pages on a website. Should I just add the content on my product tab as well, so it’s in both places? Will that cause duplication issues and any idea why they won’t index? Question: I can’t seem to get a lot of my pdfs indexed on my product pages. In the Google Hangout, the following question was asked at time 18:48: John Muller also gave insight into why such a PDF file may not be indexed, despite this. In a recent Google Hangout, John Mueller confirmed that they index PDF files in the Google just like they would any other webpage.

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