It may seem like a minor announcement however, if you are in search engine optimization, this news from Google can be extremely important.
The news is fresh… it was confirmed a few days ago.
Let’s start off by saying that Google’s constant goal is to improve the user experience when searching.
The more time users spend on the SERP of Google, the greater the chances that they will click on an advertisement.
We must never forget this aspect because, a large part of Google’s Business, still comes from ADV Campaigns.
We have tried to do some Google searches but have not found specific results yet.
Why can indexing .CSV files help search engine optimization?
Surely this news is not useful for everyone. It depends on the work you do and your search engine SEO ranking goals.
Let’s try to imagine all the Companies that have to deal with price lists, technical documents, working procedures etc…
Or all Trade Associations and all those entities that need to communicate Directories.
What is not clear is whether Google can interpret the contents of our .CSV files.
If so, it would be just crazy because it could index the individual content.
How could all this help us on Google?
Imagine uploading .CSV files of our price lists, membership lists, components of a product… etc.
Search engine optimization: what types of files are indexed by Google?
While waiting to do the first searches and see what kind of files we will find on Google we take the opportunity to point out to you which files can be indexed (external link to Google’s Developers page) by the search engine.
- Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
- Adobe PostScript (.ps)
- Google Earth (.kml, .kmz)
- GPS eXchange Format (.gpx)
- Hancom Hanword (.hwp)
- HTML (.htm, .html, other file extensions)
- Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
- Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
- OpenOffice presentation (.odp)
- OpenOffice Worksheet (.ods)
- OpenOffice text (.odt)
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
- TeX/LaTeX (.tex)
- Text (.txt, .text, other file extensions), including source code in common programming languages:
- Basic source code (.bas)
- C/C++ source code (.c, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .h, .hpp)
- C# source code (.cs)
- Java source code (.java)
- Perl source code (.pl)
- Python source code (.py)
- Wireless Markup Language (.wml, .wap)
- XML (.xml)
- Various video formats: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DivX, M2V, M3U, M3U8, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGV, QVT, RAM, RM, VOB, WebM, WMV and XAP
- Various image formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP and SVG
How to perform searches by file type
If you want to Google a specific type of file, you can use the operator filetype:
For example, “filetype:ppt seo” will search for Power Point presentations that include the term “seo.”
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