News section of the website (Duplicate Content)

[riyas_heych]

Hi Mozers

One of our client wanted to add a NEWS section in to their website. Where they want to share the latest industry news from other news websites. I tried my maximum to understand them about the duplicate content issues. But they want it badly

What I am planning is to add rel=canonical from each single news post to the main source websites

ie,

What you guys think? Does that affect us in any ways?

[matbennett]

If they aren't planning on rewriting the content you could no-index the whole lot.

What do they hope to achieve by doing it?

[Andy.Drinkwater]

So they want to take news from an external source then paste it on their site?

However, rel canonical is not meant to be used like that. It is for telling Google about a preferred page to deliver within your own domain.

If they want new, they need to take it, re-write it properly and then post it.

However, they could take a headline and a short snippet and then just have the link go straight to the originating source. Still not ideal, but better than trying to host an entire copied article.

However, as Mat said, no-index or using Robots.txt to ensure content doesn't get crawled is an option. There is never any SEO benefit to this though.

Andy

[Richard555]

Hi

Have a look at this very recent Webmaster video from Matt Cutts.

http://youtu.be/hy3_Rjc0Tso

Hope this gives help!

Nigel

[riyas_heych]

Thanks Mat, Andy & Nigel