Google started deindexing many PDFs at the end of the August. For some sites with a lot…



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Google started deindexing many PDFs at the end of the August. For some sites with a lot of PDFs ranking (like thousands or more), they saw a big drop in traffic for those files... For those sites, finding which PDFs were actually deindexed could be challenging. That's where the power of APIs come in handy. In my latest tutorial, I explain how to find all PDFs that were deindexed that were ranking in Google during the previous timeframe. You can do this by combining the Search Analytics API and URL Inspection API. And once you have this set up, you can use it for any type of file, n not just
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