How do you properly handle syndicated content?
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The same piece of content is pulled in and presented (syndicated) within a frame on different web sites (owned by the same company). However, I would like only one web site to rank on Google's search results for that content. How do I set this up?
Thanks,
claudia
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I can't imagine myself running that many sites with the same content. My approach would be to make one big asskicking site that would beat all of the competitors in the various markets.
But if you are going to have multiple copies out there... I would write the Bible about a topic and place it on my main site.... and the other sites would have summary articles that promote the Bible that can be found on the main site. I would use rel="canonical" on the small sites as described by Ryan.
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4-8 sites depending on the content.
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How many websites are we talking about?
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Hi Claudia.
You have a couple options. On the sites you do not wish to rank, you can add the "noindex, follow" meta tag to the page or you can add the canonical tag to the page pointing back to the original content.
The proper tag would be placed in the tags of the HTML on your page.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/original-article-link" />
You mentioned the content is presented "in a frame". Normally web crawlers cannot see content in iframes.
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