Pagerank and PDFs

seopeter · 09-29-2009, 08:58 AM

Does anyone here know or have a theory on how Pagerank is passed from .pdfs. I think that entire PDF document is the URL and only a URL accrues PR.

MarketingTide · 09-30-2009, 08:54 AM

I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to...could you clarify your question a bit?

Do you mean how do links in a PDF influence the PageRank of the linking site. If so, I don't think that google follows links in PDF's but this is not an issue I have ever run into.

lxh · 10-01-2009, 08:04 PM

capability appeared in Acrobat version 7, and it is not available in some of the other software that can generate a PDF file. HTML links to particular pages are formed by using the "#" fragment identifier which has not historically been involved in PR calculations.

bermuda · 10-03-2009, 12:06 PM

Even if there are some links inside the PDF documents, I really wonder how effective or strong they could be in terms of being counted as backlinks, let alone boosting the PR of the recipients.