Can I share share my content with other sites either as a individual post or RSS or will I be encourage duplicate content on the web and upset Google

[econley]

Hi,

I have a new site http://www.homeforbusiness.co.uk.  I want to encourage traffic to the site by sharing some of my content with other related websites which have a higher PR ranking and traffic for a link to my site.  Is this going to upset Google re-duplicate content and devalue my site and stop any organic rankings in the future?

Equally some high PR sites which have a good synergy with mine such as http://thewomensbusinessclubs.com/  allow me to add my RSS feed with their blog network. Is this a good thing to do or not for the same reasons as above?

Or can I only do the above my creating fresh content?

Thanks,

Elizabeth Conley

[danatanseo]

Hi Elizabeth,

As long as you have proper canonical tags in use, sharing your content is not a problem. I would, however, encourage you to at least ask for a by-line or author credit that links back to the location of the original content. I don't think there's any problem at all with others allowing you to add your RSS feed to their blog netword. However, I could be wrong about that point and am interested in what other might have to say. In my mind the whole purpose of an RSS feed is for sharing, so I can't imagine it would be a problem.

Dana

[econley]

Hi Dana,

Thanks, it probably sounds like an obvious questions but I assume I add a canonical tag to my original post on the my site before I share it.?

Thanks,

Eliz