Should I list PDFs in my sitemap file?

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user132114 picture user132114 · Jul 2, 2009 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

Should I add PDFs to my XML sitemap?

I want to know if Google will crawl the PDFs.

Answer

Jon Skeet picture Jon Skeet · Jul 2, 2009

Yes, Google crawls PDFs.

See the Search Console Help article for a list of file types indexed.

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