Promoting external blogs on our own

[lgrozeva]

From time to time we're promoting blog posts written by our employees on their external blogs (separate domains) to our official company blog. This happens when the content is valuable for our visitors and it's worth to be shared. The post is copied in its entirety and we add the sentence This post was originally published on <external blog="" post="" link="">at the top. Will this be considered duplicate content? Should we add anything else to the republished blog post? Thanks!</external>

[YannickVeys]

This will be considered duplicate content. If you want to give full credit to the original post, you can also add a rel=canonical tag to the head of that page. That way, almost all value that the page receives on your corporate blog will go to the website of your employees.

The consequence of the rel=canonical is that your corporate page will not rank (for any and I believe all keywords) in the SERP's.

[AlanMosley]

Yanick is correct,

A suggestion,
tell the employee to put the canonical in his version, or find a new job.

[YannickVeys]

LOL

Yes you could look at it the other way around. If they write blogs in the company's time, tell them to rel=canonical to the corporates blog version.