Non-HTML files on the web | Search Off the Record

Join hosts Gary and Lizzi for a chat about file types on the web beyond HTML, like PDFs, PowerPoints, and images. We cover issues with all sorts of file types, if you should convert your weird file into HTML, what file types are indexed, and more on non-HTML files.
Resources:
PDFs in Google search results → goo.gle/3RZ16dV
Episode transcript → goo.gle/sotr04...
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Thank you, Google team.

[@SEOSLY]

Another awesome episide. I really enjoyed it. Thank you, Search Relations Team. I think a lot of people miss the part about how Google approaches PDF files, i.e. that they need to be converted to HTML to Google to make sense of them.

[@randy4ii411]

Am I overthinking when I ask how do you use a pdf to create a webpage?

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Keep up the good work.

[@hechmy]

What's PII (p I I)? Where is the link for the page Gary wrote about PDF's? What is your definition of "relative" information on Google Trends? Does an html document do better for ranking vs. PDF?

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Here's the link to the blog post Gary wrote about PDFs: developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pdfs-in-google-search-results