What is the process for allowing someone to publish a blog post on another site? (duplicate content issue?)

[donsilvernail]

I have a client who allowed a related business to use a blog post from my clients site and reposted to the related businesses site.  The problem is the post was copied word for word. There is an introduction and a link back to the website but not to the post itself. I now manage the related business as well. So I have creative control over both websites as well as SEO duties. What is the best practice for this type of blog post syndication? Can the content appear on both sites?

[LoganRay]

HI Donald,

On the site that borrowed the post from the original publisher, add a canonical tag that points to the URL of the original blog post. This is the ideological way to handle this, and how news sites should be crediting the original publisher when syndicating articles.

[donsilvernail]

This is what I thought, thank you!

[LoganRay]

No problem, glad to be of assistance!