Duplicating content on multiple domains
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Hey guys,
I've started working with a new client recently called Resource Investing News. I'm more a Social Media person, though I do have SEO experience.
RIN has about 40 URLs all of which have original news content published on them. One SEO-related issue that I can see here though is that the primary domain re-publishes all of the original content that the other URLs do.
In other words:
resourceinvestingnews.com will have an article on it that is also published on goldinvestingnews.com with the same date stamp and a link out to the original article.
E.g.
http://resourceinvestingnews.com/42539-molybdenum-goes-far-beyond-steelmaking.html
http://molyinvestingnews.com/5301-molybdenum-steelmaking-vehicle-demand-electronics-lubricant.html
Does anyone have an idea if this is something that should be reviewed and/or whether the content is being negatively affected in search?
Many thanks!
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Google should recognize the original source and give credit due.
Not true. The domain with the highest authority often outranks the original source.
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Derek is right on it. You should implement a cross domain canonical tag. In fact, here is a Whiteboard Friday where Rand talks about your exact situation.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday
Hope that helps!
Ryan
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JH is right - Google should already recognize the original source. You could include a rel=canonical tag pointing to the original source to be safe - probably unnecessary though.
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Even though they're published at the same time?
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Google should recognize the original source and give credit due.
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