Creating PDF Files with Open Office for Free Traffic
I’m going to be making a couple of posts over the next week to share some useful free resources, one of which is the excellent Office suite OpenOffice, which is free!
OpenOffice includes a really quick and easy function for creating pdf files, so I thought I’d make a quick video to not only show how easy it is to create pdf’s with OpenOffice, but also why it can be a really cool thing to do for your blog, because if you do it the right way you can end up with extra results in Google and get more free traffic, which is always cool!
Have a go with your next blog post, or just grab and old one to try it with!
Update: as mentioned in one of the comments below (thanks Dean) there’s a newer version of Free Office Sutie called LibreOffice
Original Article: http://iamuncovered.com/nichereaper-review/
Original pdf source: http://iamuncovered.com/nichereaper-review.pdf
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Hey Matt!
This is actually a very cool trick/tip – and a nice quick video.
Like I always say… learn something new every day. Thanks for sharing this piece of info – I will start using it right away…
Thanks for sharing this great PDF idea Matt, It is appreciated. Open Office is a wonderful tool for those who can’t afford the cost of MS Office.
This is great and new to me.
Just one question
When using your FTP programme, where on the website do you send the pdf to?
Hi Marian,
put it wherever you want to, you could for instance create a seperate folder called “pdf” and put all of them in there, but I tend to just pop them in the root directory… 🙂
cheers,
Matt
Thanks Matt
I have found your tips and videos a great help when I am about to pull out all my hair.
Thank you for this great tip.
Thanks Matt! Great idea here. I already have open office but never thought about using it to create PDF files. Now I have a very good reason that will only just benefit me in generating some extra traffic 😀
Hi Matt,
Thanks for nice tip. You mentioned in the video about pdf sites. Could you share what are the best sites to share with? Thanks.
Thanks for sharing the information!! It is extremely valuable. 😉
Hi Matt. Interesting idea. Like the video tutorial. Did you know that Oracle now own Open Office and that they’re no longer maintaining / developing it? LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) is an offshoot of the Open Office development team and has already improved the suite to be more compatible with MSOffice standards and file formats etc…
Hi Dean,
I wasn’t aware of that, thanks for the update!
cheers,
Matt
I’ve had Open Office a little while and was amazed how easy it was to make a pdf.
There’s still a learning curve to using the program and in fact I like it better than MS Office Pro.
I’m looking forward to your next post…about how you get extra traffic. One other thing, is the’ free blog traffic guide’ the same as ‘Rapid Profit Formula?
Ooops, sorry Matt, I thought I was on Matt Carters Blog. I was admiring your thems and layout too!.
Did you build this blog yourself? I Like it! Bookmarked.
Hi,
yup, this is all my work, although I had the themes written for me, you can grab a copy from the themes page.
Matt
Hi Matt! A very cool tutorial indeed. I just made my first PDF version of one of my articles and Open Office made it really quick to do!
Duplicate content is not such a cool thing..duh 🙄
Hi,
duplicate content isn;t as big an issue as a lot of “Guru’s” would scare you in to believeing, they always seem to have something to sell at the same time, don’t they..? lol!
And Google does NOT currently view pdf content as duplicate, that’s the point here.
cheers,
Matt