If my article is reposted on another blog, using re=canonical, does that count as a link back?

[cmguidry]

Hey all!

My company blog is interested in letting another blog repost our article. We would ask them to use "re-canonical" in the mark-up to avoid Google digging through "duplicate" info out there. I was wondering, if the other site does use the "re=canonical", will that appear as a backlink or no?

I understand that metrics will flow back to my original URL and not the canonical one, but I am wondering if the repost will additionally show as a backlink.

Thanks!

[Maslavista]

Thank you for your detailed and clear explanation.

[cmguidry]

Thanks so much EGOL, super helpful

[EGOL]

If they add the to the head of their page then here is what will happen.....

• the page with your article on their website will not be indexed by Google (they are not 100% good on this but they don't do badly)
• the page on their website will appear in your search console as a link with the note.... "Links to your site" as.... "via this intermediate link:  http://theirdomain.com/page-where-your-article-is-published.html")
• any page on their website that links to your article page on their website will appear in your search console as a link with the note.... "Links to your site" as.... "via this intermediate link:  http://theirdomain.com/page-where-your-article-is-published.html")
• any page on any other website that links to your article page on their website will appear in your search console as a link with the note.... "Links to your site" as.... "via this intermediate link:  http://theirdomain.com/page-where-your-article-is-published.html")

This is how Google currently handles this.  They will likely handle it the same in the future, but they could change their mind without tellin' anybody, which they have been known to do.

In my opinion, this is the proper way of giving your content to other people.  It prevents them from competing against you in the SERPs with your content on their website.  The problem is getting people to agree to it and a lot of other webmasters doing understand it.

This article can be viewed on their website by thousands of people and they can enjoy the ad revenue from it, their visitors can read it and share it, and link to it  -- and those shares and links will bring visitors into the article page on their website.