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Hi There,

 

We will sell PDF assets via osCommerce. I'm trying to decide if I need to post a description for every file (item) in the store. My decision will be based on how the search engine behaves. I know it searches through item descriptions during a query. Will it also search the inventory of "text" PDF files for the keywords of a query (like other major search engines)??

 

Our PDF files are searchable by Spiderline. My hope is that the osCommerce search engine will also be able to search through our PDF files. Thanks in advance for your feedback!

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osC will not search files that are not stored and indexed in the database. You will need to store the PDFs in the database, and install the adobe PDF iFilter on your web server. Then its a bit of custom coding.

 

Its not the easiest thing to do, but its possible.

 

Alternately- for SEO, Google will index your PDFs, but it will not link to your product info pages, it will link directly to the PDFs.

My advice comes in two flavors- Pick the one that won't offend you.

 

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You could always duplicate the description field in the database and put a text only version of the PDF in it.

 

Then modify the search function to search this field as well.

 

This way you won't have to show the contents of the PDF to the customer, unless you want to.

 

Jon.

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