Google and PDF's

Should these be indexed?

[dmje]

On our site we have some informational PDF's that relate to a particular product. These pdf's are accessible via a link on the particular product page. I noticed when do a site:mydomain.com search that google is getting the title of the PDF's all wrong:

Example:Instead of having the correct title of Fishing Boat...google shows this for the title, FIISSHHIINNGGBBOOAATT with a screwed up description. Is this because google automatically creates html versions as it crawls the web?

We want the pdf's to be accessible to our customers as they are quite informative in relation to the product but I don't want google to index them if they are going to have such a screwed up title and description..question is..how do I stop them since google is apparently ignoring the robots.txt file, according to my reading here on the forum. If I cant stop them is there a way that I can change something to get google to pickup the correct title and description?

[tedster]

Google often uses the pdf file's own meta data for the title and description. In Acrobat, check this:

File > Document Properties > Summary

[g1smd]

I see a lot of PDF files with incorrect titles in Google. It has always been so.

In the last few days, I also see those titles getting longer as Google takes a bigger chunk from the file to construct their SERPs title from.

[dmje]

Tedster, I do not see any meta data where you suggested.

g1smd, I guess that means there is nothing I can do to correct this as it apparently has been going on for a long time and is only getting worse.

I appreciate your responses.

[annej]

I can find the description in document properties but can't figure out how to add keywords or change the title.

I'm not sure it matters for me as I use pdfs for templates and diagrams so there are few words on them. Since they are there for added information to another page it doesn't really matter if they get indexed.

[Dagger]

Try go to google and search for the word wwiinntteerr. You will find alot of pdf documents with your kind of problem. A quick look seems to indicate this is related to some fancy lettering with several layers or something similar.

The title can be changed by going into File-->Document Properties-->Description-->Title, and enter the title there. This would take over as the new link title to your document.