I love Google Docs
! It’s a handy online way to store and collaborate documents online.
I have been using it for ages but it seems to be getting even better. Much more features (especially with spreadsheets) and a sleeker interface.
I have only managed to use up 51% of my 1 gig free cloud hosting, but will no doubt upgrade when the time comes as the prices are very good.
One thing I have had in the back of my mind for a while now is leveraging Google Docs for SEO. Surely any public documents that link back to a website would be a great advantage to a business? Google Docs has a PageRank of 8!
So the experiment I am conducting is to monitor how Google webmaster tools treats documents stored in Google Docs.
I created a document for one of my current SEO clients. The private link can be found here.
Next Step, convert it to a PDF and upload it back to Google Docs. It is now public with the title Custom Timber Furniture Melbourne.
I hope to do an updated post in the future with results.
What are the results???
I was curious about this too and found your blog post. I did an advanced search and your pdf does actually show up in the Google search results https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=Custom+Timber+Furniture+Melbourne&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=docs.google.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights
However when you view the source of the public doc there doesn’t appear to be any content of yours showing up in the code so I don’t think this will have any benefit to SEO.
Thanks for the experiment.
Thanks for the Feedback David. While I think it will have no bearing on search engine placements, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Google Docs “8″ pagerank is passed on with the next pagerank update.
Worth a try. It is quite hard to get a quality link from any sites in the upper end of the scale these days. Especially since the Panda update