Ezine Articles - Copied Content on Site

[GrouchyKids]

One of my clients has a bunch of articles on the normal article syndication sites.

They have duplicated these articles on their own site.

My instinct is to implement on the offending pages of the clients site.

Anyone with any experience of something similar?

Is this the right way to go?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

[SEODinosaur]

Simply trackback to the originals. As long as you trackback to the original content the search engines will know that this is not duplicate content.

If you are using Wordpress for your website simply click the "screen options" on top and check "send trackbacks." That will add the field.

I attached an example of the "screen options" tab with the "send trackbacks" selected.

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[GrouchyKids]

Thanks Donnie

I'm afraid the pages on the client site are static.

[SEODinosaur]

hmm... Perhaps you can move them to the blog (if you have one... From my understanding every site should have one) and have the old pages de-indexed from your google webmaster tools.

[GrouchyKids]

Have also heard the rumour RE blogs

Should have probably stated that the articles are not perhaps as fantastic as i would like.

[RuthBurrReedy]

If you don't want them to appear in the index but still want them on the site for user reasons, noindex, follow is one way to do it - you could also use the rel=canonical tag to call out the original post as the canonical one.

[GrouchyKids]

Ezine articles seem to use the rel=canonical tag, wouldn't that force the engines to view them as the canonical source?

[RuthBurrReedy]

Right - so you would be using the canonical tag on your clients' site to point to the ezine articles site.  Otherwise it will just end up looking like duplicate content - but again, if you just want to noindex, follow the content then canonicaling won't be an issue.

[GrouchyKids]

Cool thanks for your help...