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Thank you all for your information.  It is very insightful and will help us move towards the correct decisions.

We manage content for many clients in the same industry, and many of them wish to keep their customers on their individualized websites (understandably).  In order to do this, we have duplicated content in part from the manufacturers' pages for several "models" on the client's sites.  We have put in a Canonical reference at the start of the content directing back to the manufacturer's page where we duplicated some of the content.  We have only done a handful of pages while we figure out the canonical reference potential issue.

So, my questions are:

• Is this necessary?
• Does this hurt, help or not do anything SEO-wise for our ranking of the site?

Thanks!

We manage content for many clients in the same industry, and many of them wish to keep their customers on their individualized websites (understandably).  In order to do this, we have duplicated content in part from the manufacturers' pages for several "models" on the client's sites.  We have put in a Canonical reference at the start of the content directing back to the manufacturer's page where we duplicated some of the content.  We have only done a handful of pages while we figure out the canonical reference potential issue.

So, my questions are:

• Is this necessary?
• Does this hurt, help or not do anything SEO-wise for our ranking of the site?

Thanks!

Thank you all for your information.  It is very insightful and will help us move towards the correct decisions.