Is an RSS feed considered duplicate content?

[gXeSEO]

I have a large client with satellite sites. The large site produces many news articles and they want to put an RSS feed on the satellite sites that will display the articles from the large site.

My question is, will the rss feeds on the satellite sites be considered duplicate content?

If yes, do you have a suggestion to utilize the data from the large site without being penalized?

If no, do you have suggestions on what tags should be used on the satellite pages? EX: wrapped in

tags?

THANKS for the help.

Darlene

[ChadBreezy]

It certainly can look like this in the eyes of Google. However, if there is no mission or intent to try and scam Google of page rank, then place this tag in your header

and you should be fine.

Also any link juice associated with the page should also follow to your website.

For more info checkout this SEOMOZ post:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

[gXeSEO]

Would you say that wrapping the text in the article tag would also help?

[ChadBreezy]

Yea the article tag can help. It shows the original page. However note that this probably best for

blogs, forum post, news story, and or comment.

The canonical tag is for more internal websites and primarily popular for blogs. When you say satellite pages, are you referring to inner pages of your website or other pages on other websites? Curious.

[gXeSEO]

News stories from the main site shown on other sites the company owns. It's a hospital website wanting to show their news on the individual doctor's websites.