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Backlinks and PDFs
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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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No more needed than EGOL's answer
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Daniel,
Yes, they will count. Take a look at EGOL's answer on this.
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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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