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danieldunn10 last edited by

Hi, we are trying to improve on the number of links to our website.

A supplier has added a PDF file which is case study to their website.

In the PDF it has a link to our website, will this count as a link or not?

Thanks
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Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

No more needed than EGOL's answer
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Chris.Menke last edited by

Daniel,

Yes, they will count. Take a look at EGOL's answer on this.
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GPainter last edited by

Google can crawl pdfs so it does count as a link however it's not the strongest link in the world.
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