{"id":16582,"date":"2026-09-02T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/file-types-indexed\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:46:02","slug":"file-types-indexed","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/file-types-indexed\/","title":{"rendered":"File Types Google Can Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google indexes many non-HTML formats: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plain text, RTF and several others. They appear in results with a file-type label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical implications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PDFs cannot carry a <code>&lt;meta&gt;<\/code> robots tag, use the <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> HTTP header instead.<\/li><li>Canonical for a PDF is set via the <code>Link:<\/code> HTTP header.<\/li><li>A PDF title comes from its document properties, not the filename. Set it.<\/li><li>Text in a scanned image PDF is not readable unless the file has an OCR text layer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ar-kb-tavsiye\"><p><strong>Alien Road recommends:<\/strong> publish an HTML version of anything important and keep the PDF as a download. PDFs rank, but they are poor on mobile, hard to update, and carry none of your navigation or calls to action. We treat &#8220;PDF-only&#8221; content as a conversion problem before an SEO one.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond HTML, PDFs, documents and the metadata that makes them findable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":30,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[509],"ar_kb_etiket":[595,530,594],"class_list":["post-16582","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-url-structure","ar_kb_etiket-file-types","ar_kb_etiket-indexing","ar_kb_etiket-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23677,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16582\/revisions\/23677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=16582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}