XML Feed

[jazavide]

If a site has an xml feed being used by 100 companies to create the content on their site.  Will those 100 sites receive any link juice?

Is there any way content may be classed as duplicate across these sites? And should the page on the site where the xml feed is coming from have the page indexed first?

[Houses]

I would say that that they wouldn't be receiving any and that the content would be seen as duplicate because it is the same as on other sites.

If the site that the feed is coming from is the site that is important to you, then you want that to be indexed first.

I think you can use the canonical tag on the sites with the duplicate content to show the original source.

Can the other sites not create unique content to make them more useful?

[jazavide]

Hi Tina,

You think all xml feeds produce duplicate content to the sites they are going into?

The site the feed is coming from in this case is not neccessarily the most important one for this excercise.  The hundred plus other sites that will use the feeds on their pages are all customers so working out the pro's and con's for them displaying a large amount of data via the xml feed in their pages.

I could use the canonical tag, this would have to be set up on original site that has feed.

The 100+ sites using the feed want to know if there pages can be indexed with the xml feed on to be found in the search engines, or is this duplicate without the canonical link?

For the purpose of this, the sites cannot create unique content.