Duplicate Content From Huffington Post Blog

[EmarketedTeam]

A client who writes blog posts for Huffington Post also wants an identical version of the blog posted to his personal site. Do you think there could be a problem of being punished for duplicate content? Would a better SEO practice be to have the client do an on-site blog just linking to the Huffington Post blog and providing information about it?

[EmarketedTeam]

Great call, thanks Matt!

[TextMarketing]

If your client wants to have an exact copy of the article on their blog without getting penalized by Google, all they need to add a rel=canonical tag to the header of the page that points to the original article on the Huffington Post blog.

This tag tells Google that the original content is elsewhere and to pass all "SEO credit" to that page instead of yours. It's also good practice to link to the original article at the bottom. Something like "View the original article at www.somedomain.com".

You can learn more about the rel=canonical tag here... http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Hope this helps!

• Matt