Best practice?

[Paul78]

Hi there,

I have recently written an article which I have posted on an online newspaper website. I want to use this article and put it on my blog also, the reason the article will be placed on my blog is to drive users from my email marketing activities.

Would it simply be best practice to disallow Google from crawling this page? or put a rel canonical on the article placed on my blog pointing to the article placed on the online newspaper website?

Thanks for any suggestions

[Debdulal]

Try this tag instead since you are going to use exactly the same content on your website –

_However, you are free to set Google Cross domain canonical. For more information - _

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/credit-where-credit-is-due.html

[Paul78]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your feedback.

Even though the content is the same, some of the links are slightly different, would that be a problem?

Thanks

[optimumweb]

Hello Gary,

Personally, I would recommend you put a rel="canonical" tag on the article and maybe even put a small link back to the newspaper website if possible. Something that would say: "As seen on xyz.com".

This will help the rankings of the newspaper article as well as building trust (a newspaper published it).

I have done this on several blog articles and it went all for the best.

Good luck!