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To make sure I understand what I'm reading:

• PDFs don't usually rank as well as regular pages (although it is possible)
• It is possible to configure a canonical tag on a PDF

My concern isn't that our PDFs may outrank the original content but rather getting slammed by Google for publishing them.

Am right in thinking a canonical tag prevents to accumulate link juice? If so I would prefer to not use it, unless it leads to Google slamming.

Any one has experienced Google retribution for publishing PDF coming from a 3rd party?

@EGOL: Can you expend a bit on your Author suggestion?

Thanks all!

I see no reason why PDF couldn't be considered duplicate content but I haven't seen any threads about it.

We publish loads of product documentation provided by manufacturers as well as White Papers and Case Studies. These give our customers and prospects a better idea off our solutions and help them along their buying process.

However, I'm not sure if it would be better to make them non-indexable to prevent duplicate content issues. Clearly we would prefer a solutions where we benefit from to keywords in the documents.

Any one has insight on how to deal with PDF provided by third parties?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the answers guys.

@Robert: It is indeed the initial report. Yet I did receive other reports since. Also thanks for suggestion the Screaming Frog tool. The report I get from it will be useful in my discussion with our CRM provider.

@Cyrus: I also used URI Valet. I don't understand, the 302 redirects are on picture links. I'll communicate with our CRM provider about that. Also, I don't understand how any of our old URLs could be reached crawling our website as this is a completely new website. No part was transferred over so the shouldn't be any way for the crawler to see our old URLs.

Thanks again

Hello,

I'm a new SEOmoz member.

On Dec. 2nd, after completely redesigning our website, we migrated to a new hosting company by switching our DNS to the new server.

The vast majority of the URLs have changed and we configured redirects of the old URLs to the new ones. Although, this task is not completed yet.

After the migration, I created an account on SEOmoz to be able to track our progress and find the issues to fix to optimize our SEO.

For some reason, in the SEOmoz reports it is the old URLs that show up. Unless the crawler does not actually crawl the pages and only uses the indexed pages to generate its report, I don't understand how could this possible.

Anyone has a clue?

When will the new URLs be indexed by SEOmoz and the major search engines?

Thanks for your help!

I see no reason why PDF couldn't be considered duplicate content but I haven't seen any threads about it.

We publish loads of product documentation provided by manufacturers as well as White Papers and Case Studies. These give our customers and prospects a better idea off our solutions and help them along their buying process.

However, I'm not sure if it would be better to make them non-indexable to prevent duplicate content issues. Clearly we would prefer a solutions where we benefit from to keywords in the documents.

Any one has insight on how to deal with PDF provided by third parties?

Thanks in advance.