Title of PDFs returned in SERPS

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Title of PDFs returned in SERPS

webdude

1:48 pm on Nov 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Recently, I started adding pdf files to one of my sites. The files are basically maps. As expected, the files got crawled and I am happy about that. But in the SERRs currently, all the pdfs have "untitled" as their link text. Is this normal and if so, will the anchor ever change? Or a better question yet would be, how do you change the anchor in the SERPs to something other then "untitled."

Thanks

webdude

9:16 pm on Nov 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

Bumping this thread. Still wondering about this if anyone has dealt with pdfs listed in the index...

Thanks!

jonrichd

11:01 pm on Nov 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

I believe you can go into the document properties of your PDF file and change the title to whatever you want it to be. I can't guarantee this, but I believe that's where the title is pulled from.

kevinpate

11:18 pm on Nov 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

yeppers. jonrichd is correct. I've done this for several items in both doc and pdf format.
(Come to think of it, I have some old items I never went back and updated. Thanks for the reminder.)

webdude

1:20 pm on Nov 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

I already did that but I believe that the pdfs were crawled before I added the title and keywords to the properties. I find it interesting that G will pull that data out. I assume that this data is weighted in the SERPs somehow. I wonder if the fact that they are pdf files would weight the title and keywords differently then regular HTML pages. Better or worse? Who knows.

I'll have to wait for another major crawl to see if at least the title is picked up. I also wonder if the version of Acrobat matters. I am using 4 which is quite old.

Thanks for the info!

WebDude