Blog Content Displayed on Multiple Pages

[EBKMarketing]

We are developing an online guide that will provide information and listing for a few different cities in Canada and the US.

We have blog content that will be pulled into each different city's blog articles page. Some articles are location agnostic and can be displayed for any city, and other articles will only be city specific, and only appear under a particular city.

www.mysite.com//blog/seattle/article1
www.mysite.com/blog/portland/article1

From what I know of SEO, it seems that this is a perfect example for the use of canonicalization.

So for article that will appear in multiple city guides, should there be a tag that points to a home for that article

www.mysite.com/blog/article1

Thanks

[GastonRiera]

Hello,

Yeap, this is the typical case that canonicalization is needed.
Here some information about canonicals, so not to make any mistakes.

Canonicalization - Moz Canonicals - Google Webmaters Tools 5 common mistakes with rel=canonical - Google Webmasters Tools

Hope it helps.
GR.

[BlueCorona]

You're right! To add on to Gaston's response, the nice thing about the rel=canonical tag is the fact that it passes on the same amount of link juice that a 301 redirect does, and it's a lot easier to do (that fact that these links are supported by Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other top search engines doesn't hurt, either).

Just always keep in mind that rel=canonical pages won't appear in search results!