Cross-domain duplicate content issue

[LCNetwork]

Hey all,

Just double-checking something. Here's the issue, briefly.

One of my clients is a large law firm. The firm has a main site, and an additional site for an office in Atlanta.

On the main site, there is a list of all attorneys and links to their profiles (that they wrote themselves). The Atlanta site has this as well, but lists only the attorneys located in that office.

I would like to have the profiles for the Atlanta lawyers on both sites. Would rel=canonical work to avoid a dupe-content smackdown? The profiles should rank for Atlanta over the main site. This just means that G will drop the main site's profiles (for those attorneys) from their index, correct? No other weird side effects?

I hope I worded all that clearly!

[AlanMosley]

That is correct.

You need to put the canonical tag in the main site pointing to the Atlanta site to give the atlanta site credit

[LCNetwork]

Thanks Alan!