Is putting a manufacturer's product manual on my site in PDF duplicate content
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I add the product manuals to our product pages to provide additional product information to our customers. Is this considered duplicate content? Is there a best way to do this so that I can offer the information to my customers without getting penalized for it? Should they be indexable? If not how do I control?
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Thanks for the answer Kevin. For those interested in learning about using the HTTP Header to establish a canonical tag, you can look here on Google's Webmaster Central Blog.
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As Bryan said, be safe. It's not the original so use a canonical link element to point to the original (through the http header).
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I'd de-index them, since it's not only likely duplicate content, but it's also content you didn't create. I suggest erring on the side of caution.
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