Sell content - will it be duplicate?

[rasmusbang]

Hi,

We are on the verge of selling some of our content articles to a business partner. But my concern is about the content appearing severeal places on the web. It will most likely be labelled as duplicate content. The articles have links to our site, so link building-wise it would be great to benefit from these.

What would the best solution be?

1. If I ask the partner to set pages to noindex - google will not label it as duplicate content.

2. If the partner sets the pages with a canonical link to our page, will this be okay SEO wise?

-Rasmus

[JustinTaylor88]

Using a cross domain rel canonical should fix any issues with this and mean that you as the original author get the link juice.

Rand explains the usage of cross domain canonical links in the following whiteboard friday:-

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

hope this helps