Hi,

The answer to your main question is yes, do a search on google for filetype:doc or filetype:txt and you'll see tons of doc and txt files indexed.

The answer to your second question, if they offer any SEO, is a little more complex. You should try and see if you can get a page to be indexed if it is only linked from doc files.

Judging by my experience, I rarely see doc or txt files in the SERPs and even more rarely click on them if they show up. I'd rather do a HTML version of the page with a link to download the doc file in a directory blocked to spiders to avoid duplicates.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Candida,

I would suggest that you shouldn't use 302 redirects because they won't pass any link juice, but not only because of this.

Instead of automaticaly redirecting the users without their consent, you should let them decide in what language they want to see the website.

For example, I'm french, but my browser's language is set to english.  If I click a french result in the SERPs, I wouldn't want to be redirected to the english version.

Also, by automaticaly redirecting the users to their browser's language, this mean you will automaticaly redirect GoogleBot to your english website and prevent him from indexing your spanish website.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Pashmina,

How does Website A is a redirect to Website B and can it has one page indexed?

If Website A has a 301 PERMANENT redirection to Website B, then I think it should stay permanent.

If Website A has a page indexed, then I presume it is not a 301 redirection.  In that case, moving the content and making a 301 redirect from Website B to Website A would be a good idea in term of SEO.

But, you shouldn't only think in term of SEO, you should also think in term of branding and usability. What is the domain name that reflects your brand? relates to your products? is easier to remember?

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi,

The answer to your main question is yes, do a search on google for filetype:doc or filetype:txt and you'll see tons of doc and txt files indexed.

The answer to your second question, if they offer any SEO, is a little more complex. You should try and see if you can get a page to be indexed if it is only linked from doc files.

Judging by my experience, I rarely see doc or txt files in the SERPs and even more rarely click on them if they show up. I'd rather do a HTML version of the page with a link to download the doc file in a directory blocked to spiders to avoid duplicates.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

Hi Candida,

I would suggest that you shouldn't use 302 redirects because they won't pass any link juice, but not only because of this.

Instead of automaticaly redirecting the users without their consent, you should let them decide in what language they want to see the website.

For example, I'm french, but my browser's language is set to english.  If I click a french result in the SERPs, I wouldn't want to be redirected to the english version.

Also, by automaticaly redirecting the users to their browser's language, this mean you will automaticaly redirect GoogleBot to your english website and prevent him from indexing your spanish website.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.