How to stop PDF files and the PDF icon from getting indexed?

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  • Plugin Author Lewis Rosenthal

    (@lewisr)

    Hi…

    This is well beyond the scope of this project. I would suggest adding:

    IndexIgnore *

    to the top of your .htaccess file in your /uploads/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced-cache directory. As for the icon, you may do the same thing in the assets/images directory for the plugin, if you like. I’m just not seeing a major advantage, but then, I’m not an SEO guy.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter Alter Falter

    (@alterfalter)

    Thanks for your quick reply. The problem is called duplicate content. I bet SEO guys would love this option. I’m not the Fiddling with the .htaccess file guy. ??

    Alter, use in the cache directory the following .htaccess file to prevent PDF google indexing.

    <FilesMatch “.pdf$”>
    Header set X-Robots-Tag “noindex, noarchive, nosnippet”
    </FilesMatch>

    As for the PDF Icon, you can not prevent google to index parts of a page, and the PDF icon is part of the page.

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