Questions about PDF indexing on Wix

Hi,

I recently found out that Wix offered the feature to index the PDF’s linked on your site. So, I opted to do so but it’s been about a week and I’m not seeing them show up on google; should I be concerned?

On a side note with that, I know the easiest way to check if they’ve been indexed is to fetch them as google, but since Wix doesn’t actually save the PDF’s as part of my site I don’t have the authorization. Why do they do this? It’s almost like the PDF documents are still “Wix” properties rather than mine.

Last question…the PDF’s I’ve linked and tried to index on my site are long versions of the same material I put up on my blog. In other words, the PDF’s are around 40 pages of material; on my blog I divided them up into 3-4 page sections. (In fact the whole reason I created the blog was that at that time Wix wasn’t letting me index the PDF’s). Will this be a problem or be considered duplicates by google? Thanks!

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Hi there!

In general, it can take several weeks for your site to be crawled. You can always submit your sitemap to expedite the process (more on that here ).

Regarding your PDF’s content, the general rule is that if you can copy/paste text from your PDF it should be indexable, so this may be considered duplicate content.

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