Author Credit when Using Existing Article

[AliMac26]

Hello,

We have received permission from a consultant we partner with to publish one of his articles on our site (listing him as the author, of course). However, he currently has the article published on his site, so if I put it on my site will I get penalized for stealing content? Is there some sort of tagging that will provide him/his site credit? Maybe a canonical tag?

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Ali M,

Thanks for your question! Yes, you can use the canonical tag to point to the author's website as the original source of the content. Here's everything you need to know about canonical tags: https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization.

Hope that helps,

Christy

[invechseo]

In my opinion better to ask the publisher to create unique content related to his topic.But yes you can use the same article and apply canonical tags.But for me to get benefit both you in terms of link juice try to accept unique content .