Yes, thats what I suggested with the custom 404 on IIS. But it's not that
nice, and not sure how Google will react. But if no other options, I will
have to have a go at this. Wait till documents are indexed and then replace
with CFM page..

And yes, I would actually throw a real 404 if the file did not exist ;-)


On 2/12/08, AJ Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> maybe a rewrite rule for *.doc | *.pdf
> that redirects to a cfm page passing the file name as a parameter
>
> The cfml has your blurb and a link to the another cfm page with the
> cfcontent to push the file out
> (so the rewrite rule doesnt go around in circles)
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:13 PM, Ricardo Russon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > if the file was being serverd by cfcontent, then you could flag in the
> > session if the download is to begin or if the page is to be displayed.
> > then either display the download link or use js to start the download.
> > -> or just server up the file if its a bot so that it can get indexed.
> >
> > just move the files, preferably somewhere outside the webroot and wait
> > for google to re-index your site with the new cf links.
> >
> >
> >   On Feb 12, 2008 2:59 PM, Taco Fleur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has any bright ideas on the following.
> > >
> > > We have some Word and PDF documents that are indexed by Google. When a
> > > user finds the document and click the link from Google, they'll 
> > > immediately
> > > download the document from our site and never see the site itself.
> > >
> > > This is not what we want, we'd like to display a page from our site
> > > after the download started.
> > >
> > > Now, one thing I can think of doing, is replacing the indexed files
> > > with a 404 that checks if the file exists, if it does, then display a link
> > > to the file for download. However, that's not the most optimal, it would 
> > > be
> > > nicer if I could somehow serve the file up with cfcontent and then 
> > > display a
> > > page... But I think that is wishful thinking.....
> > >
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