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Hi Brett,

Yes that is my question, thank you! First, I appreciate your response!

Second, I had not found anything related to SlideShare slides being crawlable by engines. Do you happen to have a source/link that they are? I understand the ability to no-index the page an embedded SlideShare is on, but if the client wants only a single SlideShare embedded on a page, my guess/assumption is that the page could be viewed as having thin content. My suggestion to them was to have supporting copy/content related to the SlideShare added to the page so it was better optimized.

Thoughts?

Hi, I've a client who is planning to build out "courses" for their site. Their ultimate goal is to have videos (which will have transcriptions) but since the videos are not yet ready they want to launch with the content in PowerPoint format instead. Thing is, the pages they have now are really good content/in-depth. In short it seems videos are Phase 2, so their Phase 1 preference is to take all their courses content and put them in PowerPoint slides and add them to their web site.

While I understand standalone files like PDFs and PPTs can be indexable, my recollection is that embedded slides are not (like SlideShare). Is that correct?

My worry is that by taking this content and reformatting it into PowerPoints will hurt their site instead of helping.

Any insight is appreciated!

While this is a thread from many years ago, I'm wondering if anyone has any relatively new insight about this?

A team I'm working with plans on taking article content and breaking them out into PPT presentations/slides which will be embedded on their site. My concern is the lack of optimization this offers regarding SEO. I know there's countless articles on using slideshare for SEO and lead generation, but are there optimization tips if one is embedding the actual PPT into the page?

Have you used Google's Fetch and Render tool on the URLs?

Agreed with Kevin - preference would be to couple pricing with schema markup. In my experience I would look more for including criteria a user was interested in when refining searches (size, color, etc.)