| PDF's not appearing | mello01 | 1/14/09 8:03 AM | I've seen numerous posts on this topic and no replies. I've submitted several Sitemaps with links to pdf docs and CSE is not indexing them, the htm pages are indexed and display nicely. Has anybody gotten this to work? I've upgraded my account to a B |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | (unknown) | 1/14/09 1:10 PM | Exact same problem here. And I did upgrade from free to Business account as well in hopes of getting Google to answer. Nothing! Very frustating. As well, can anyone tell me how to reach Google tech support as this page http://www.google.com/support/c |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | cmo | 1/15/09 11:39 AM | Hi guys, There's nothing about the CSE index that should be preventing your PDFs from being indexed as long as they're available for Google to find and crawl. Check out the Webmaster Help Center for tips about how to ensure your content - including P |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | ggbrown | 1/28/09 6:14 AM | I'd like to chime in here also. Like the others, I upgraded from the Free CSE to Google Site Search (1 year for $100) specifically so I could submit time sensitive PDF's to our site and leverage Google's Site Search. I submitted a site map with direc |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | ggbrown | 2/5/09 6:35 AM | Any help here? |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | cmo | 2/6/09 3:44 PM | Hi ggbrown, Do you have the URL of your GSS engine handy? I noticed that the http://lawsociety.mb.ca site search is still a Google Syndicated Search box. - Christine |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | harrison | 5/15/09 8:40 AM | I simply am not finding the answers I'm looking for. Very frustrating. Here's somebody that seems to have figured it out. http://www.paho.org/hia/results.htm Try typing in "Prevention Advocacy". You'll see some PDFs listed. Is there something I'm |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | cmo | 5/15/09 11:22 AM | Hi harrison, Can you provide a link to your search engine homepage or a page from your site where you've included a search box? Also, let me know what PDFs aren't showing up in your results. - Christine |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Rita Carr | 8/10/09 2:16 PM | We developed a website and are experiencing the same issues of pdfs not showing up in search results. Here is a page on the website with several pdf files, but I cannot see them in the results when I search for phrases from the pdfs. http://www.minsp |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/14/10 9:33 PM | Hi all, I'm running CSE at http://www.sod2010.net and my custom search is not returning PDFs. There are about 974 links to over 600 PDFs on this site but no PDFs are showing up. I have not specifically created a sitemap that has pointers to these as |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Prathap Reddy | 4/15/10 3:17 AM | When I perform search on your site, I see three PDF files returned in search results. Do you have any specific examples which aren't returned in search results? |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/18/10 10:57 PM | Hi Prathap,Thanks for posting. Here is a good example: If I search for "phytophthora" I should come up with several hits but here is a specific example of something thats not showing.http://nature.berkeley.edu/comtf/pdf/WA%20nursery%20guide.pdf If I |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/18/10 10:59 PM | Actually sorry. Bad URL the PDF sits at http://www.sod2010.net/pdf/WA%20nursery%20guide.pdf. David |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Prathap Reddy | 4/19/10 3:27 AM | Your document is not indexed hence no results. You may consider using on-demand indexing feature in CSE to index your site. |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/19/10 10:32 AM | Prathap, thanks. I clicked the button to index on demand and I'll see what happens and report back |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/20/10 2:33 PM | Hi Prathap, I followed your advice and did an on demand index. In my sitemap I have all the PDFs referenced. There are about 600 of them. I did an on demand index 24 hours ago and I am only getting 1 PDF result when I search for filetype:pdf on my si |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/22/10 12:54 PM | Hi Prathap or some one (anyone, please :)) Can you give me some advice regarding my post above? I know google can index pdfs. Not sure why its doing so poorly on my site. |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Prathap Reddy | 4/23/10 2:07 AM | When I perform search in your site for "WA nursery guide.pdf, I see the following results: http://www.sod2010.net/search/?cx=002291317175086227706%3Afhetcwwmgre&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=WA+nursery+guide.pdf&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search&siteurl=www.sod2010 |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | hatch | 4/23/10 11:53 AM | Thats the only PDF that shows up. Try a search for filetype:pdf. Its the only one that appears. A specific example is here http://www.sod2010.net/pdf/RPF%20Regulated%20hosts%20final.pdf If I do a search for rpf regulated hosts final.pdf I get nothing |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | GulfInteractive | 5/11/10 2:09 AM | Hi all, I have a custom site search for one of my client. No issues to have PDFs in results page without doing anything special but I am experiencing another problem.The results description and sometime the title are messy. I mean words are mixed and |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Champ at GCC | 5/12/10 9:04 PM | For what it's worth, the issues I've found with PDFs are those that are the result of scanned images. They appear as "Untitled" in the result link with Page 1. Page 2... in the description. My guess is the indexing doesn't recognise any character |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Rubie | 5/27/10 6:36 PM | Hi everyone, If you're still having this problem, could you please post the URL of your CSE so that we can take a closer look? Thanks, Rubie |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Champ at GCC | 5/27/10 11:20 PM | Thanks Rubie My working sample can be found at... http://search.gosford.nsw.gov.au/ .. search for 38724 ... then you'll see the Untitled item, specifically the one linked to ... http://search.gosford.nsw.gov.au/documents/7956740.pdf There |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | Prathap Reddy | 5/31/10 2:07 AM | Google uses the title of the document from file properties as title of the search results. If no title is found, the first found large font is used as title for the document, with some exceptions. You may consider editing the PDF files to add appropr |
| Re: PDF's not appearing | ptrinh | 9/17/10 3:33 PM | Hi I'm experiencing the same problem with pdf's not showing up in search results. My site is : http://sfcontroller.org/index.aspx?page=437 I have couple pdf links in the page http://sfcontroller.org/ftp/aosdintranet/Supplemental%20Questions.pd |
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