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Preventing PDFs on the site from being accessed via Google Search

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Feb 11, 2022 at 9:29 am #167970

Helen Neale
Participant

Hi there,

I have loads of PDFs on my site within my assets folder, and they have been indexed in Google, so people can directly access them without going to the page they are associated with on my site.

They are just uploaded to the media library, so are not created within Download Manager.

How can I use Download Manager to redirect these to the pages they appear on so my site gets the views from these PDFs. I really don’t want people to be downloading my documents without viewing the articles they are associated with.

There are about 900+ PDFs on my site that seem to have this issue!

Here is a single example:
PDF as indexed by Google: https://www.kiddycharts.com/assets/chupachups-lollipop-decorations.pdf
Article the PDF appears in: https://www.kiddycharts.com/printables/free-chupachups-lollipop-templates/

I had no idea this was happening to my media library files, and have been told Download Manager is a great way of solving this. The Asset files can be redirected to their associated pages somehow.

Thanks,

Helen

P.S. I would like to do this without affecting the PDF creation in my chart builder, so want to be careful anything I do is specific to the assets that are associated with articles. Here are my chart builders FYI: https://www.kiddycharts.com/store

  • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Helen Neale.
Feb 11, 2022 at 3:56 pm #168004

Nayeem Riddhi
Moderator

Hello Helen,

Hope you are well. Do you want to make disallow Crawling Download Manager Pages Google, Bing + search engines? Please let me know

Thank you and regards

Feb 20, 2022 at 12:18 pm #168423

Helen Neale
Participant

Hi there,

Thanks – not really – as there is going to be traffic to the PDFs now as this has been happening for a while. I want to be able to redirect people to the articles that host the PDF files automatically if people land on the PDF files without visiting my articles first.

I obviously cannot just redirect the PDF files to the articles as otherwise people would be just stuck in a loop.

I have been told it is possible to do this qwirth download manager – enable a redirect only if the PDF is accessed directly via Google search, rather than through an article on my site.

Is this possible?

Thanks, Helen

Feb 20, 2022 at 6:21 pm #168433

Nayeem Riddhi
Moderator

Hello Helen,

Hope you are well. And sorry for the inconvenience. I think search engines indexing PDF files rather than an article. Can you please, give your temporary wp-admin login details in a private reply for checking the issue in a close look

Thank you and regards

Feb 23, 2022 at 5:54 pm #168583

Helen Neale
Participant
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Feb 24, 2022 at 7:21 am #168614

Nayeem Riddhi
Moderator

Hello Helen,

I have checked that, you have only two files/packages. How do you search in google for checking search engines indexing? please let me know

Thank you and regards

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