Original Source and Canonical tags

[jbertfield]

We've been using canonical links to protect site SEO for contributor content and requiring canonical of our partners (as well as tagging internal duplicate content with canonical).  Most other media sites have been doing the same but this is a moving target.  I'm now hearing that the original source tag is now a better option.

Special focus for us is placement on google news.

Any guidance?

[AlanMosley]

It only works for Google news, it is not for organic, and is not for other search engines.

it works different as i understad it. if the daily news has a story taged as original souce, then it would tell the SE' that it belongs to their organization, not any one page. Get the difference here.

they may have the story on breaking news, later on front page, then later still on buiness news, and still later in archives. so canonical would not work well for them.