Content from Another Site
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Hi there -
I have a client that says they'll be "serving content by retrieving it from another URL using loadHTMLFile, performing some manipulations on it, and then pushing the result to the page using saveHTML()." Just wondering what the SEO implications of this will be. Will search engines be able to crawl the retrieved content? Is there a downside (I'm assuming we'll have some duplicate content issues)?
Thanks for the help!!
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Hi,
Are you referring to PHP functions there? If so, content will be rendered server side and thus Google will have no problems crawling it, unlike some websites with JavaScript dependencies (not all).
Regarding duplicate content issues, Donald Silvernail is absolute correct in that using a cross domain canonical is undoubtedly best practice:
Rand has done an excellent White Board Friday on it, which explains it here: https://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-rel-canonical-seo-value-cross-posted-content
Hope this helps!
Nick
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You would definitely have to set the canonical link to the original content.
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