How I implement the cross domain rel canonical?

[NueMD]

I just watched the WBF on cross domain rel canonicals. I understand the concept, but not sure how I go about actually doing the rel canonical? If I have www.mysite.com and someone we just partnered with, www.othersite.com wants to create new pages and use my content, what will the rel canonical tag look like on www.othersite.com? Do I need to also put this tag on www.mysite.com?

I want to make sure each of my pages that the other site is copying is getting the "SEO credit."

[RyanPurkey]

You'll want to tag your versions on www.mysite.com as the canonical ones and then have www.othersite.com point to those. The WBF explains it pretty well, and here's Google's explanation: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394. The tags will look the same on both sites, as they'll both point to the page you specify.

[NueMD]

So, just to make sure I have this right, I would paste this link

into the section of both

http://www.mysite.com/product1.html

and ```

http://www.othersite.com/product1.html

?

[MarkLoud]

Yep that's it.

You link the one on othersite.com so that the content is marked as being a copy and the source is mysite.com

The link on mysite.com just confirms to google that your is the original in case there is any misunderstanding

[NueMD]

Thanks to you both.