How Documents Sharing Sites Help in SEO Ranking ?

PDF submission may have a positive impact on rankings, especially if you offer content that is likely to be downloaded and shared. PDF sites are similar to Web 2.0 sites in terms of SEO: this is not the technique which gives you the strongest backlinks, but still good enough to increase visibility and diversify a backlink profile a bit.

First of all make sure that your PDF is actually a text file, not an image, so search engine bots can actually read and index this file. As for the rest, the same rules are applied as to any other content you optimize: using keywords in title, URL, content and ALT tags. Moreover, use your keywords in document’s properties where applicable and add some backlinks inside your PDF file.

Scribd.com, Slideshare.net, Issuu.com, 4shared.com, Yudu.com, Docstoc.com. are strong domains you can submit PDF files to (PR 6-8).

One nicely spun can do it.

Hey Ben,

Thanks for this explanation. I was often wondering why DocStoc was included in the link building techniques as they don't show the links. I had no clue that they are still visible to search engines.

Interesting, I will certainly give DocSoc a consideration from now on.

That's really cool....

We never did an isolated test but I suspect it too work, either way links from as many geo locations and referring IP's as possible is always a good thing.

Don't see this as an invitation to start-up spam softwares though, links at poor sites will not help your rankings and open you up for Penguin like penalties.

You can certainly benefit from doc sharing site submissions. These sites are under utilized for a number of reasons and that can work toward your SEO success. I use them on a daily basis along with my standard SEO practices. I really could go on and on about this topic but i do not see the need to do so here as there are several posts in this thread that covey this idea pretty well. IMHO, you should take a page from Nike and just do it! ;-)

Hello, links from documents on doc sharing sites do count.

For list of Doc sharing lists check this out. 31 PDF and Document sharing sites.

I just found my own topic. I have seen couple of sites where their PDF files was still not indexed by the google like i seen 1 year old pdf file too.

These are few benefits of posting your articles to document sharing sites:

• You can get indexed in Google very quickly
• Add images and flashy formatting to your articles (this can boost click through rates)
• Create your document and upload to multiple document sharing sites for more traffic and views (I’ll explain why this ISN’T duplicate content in a second)
• Easily add affiliate links into your articles.

Hope these point will help you....!!!!

They are just backlink sources like other sources. They are not silver bullets that will surely rank your website up.

Guys but what what kind of format must original document be created in so presentations sharing websites and infographic sharing websites won't strip hyperlinks/anchor texts from them that search engines will be able to crawl?

Would SlideShare still display those properly if presentations are uploaded in PowerPoint's .PPT format?

Lastly, in case I created in format that would not work well with above websites, how can I convert to proper format and with which tools?

Thanks!

PDF sharing is very effective for ranking and traffic try share best content keyword wise

What format does SlideShare keep uploaded file in that has .PPT extension?

I've had some success using sites like scribd, but it's usually better if you can push more PA through it by building links on a large scale to it.

This site seems to have very useful information on your question. Your Guide to Creating Backlinks with PDF Files | Ace Site Creator

thanks for this wonderful thread guys.

Document sharing sites are good source for getting backlinks to your website. They help your site to rank on top of SERPs and also they are good source for driving high traffic towards your site.