Anybody having success with Cross-Domain canonical?

[EGOL]

Has anyone been using rel="canonical" to attribute content that has been republished on Domain B... back to Domain A, which is the original source?

The videos  below say that this should be working...  I am asking to hear from anyone who has done it.

Has it worked as you expected?   Did Domain A get the benefit that you expected?

Thanks!

==========   Source Videos   =============

Matt Cutts (April, 2012)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI6L2N4A0hA

Matt Cutts (April, 2010)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XdFb6LGtM

Rand Fishkin  (August, 2012)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8drPXudZZc

[Linda-Vassily]

Yes I have done it and yes it seems to be working.

The daughter of the owner of the company I work for published an article on her site which we reprinted on ours, using the rel=canonical tag to indicate that her site had the original.

When I search for a string from the article, her site comes up and ours does not.

[Dr-Pete]

I don't have much direct client experience with it (not very applicable to my previous niches), but I know that a couple of SEO friends in the newspaper industry reported using it successfully (very successfully, in one case) not long after Google approved cross-domain use. Of course, like anything, Google seems to modulate things over time, especially if they get abused. We're seeing a lot of changes in how 301s are handled this year, and I expect Google to start altering how canonicals (both internal and cross-domain) work, especially when people misuse them.

[EGOL]

Thank you for the report, Linda.

Glad to hear that it seems to be working.

[EGOL]

Thanks Doc!

Always good to be reminded that google often changes their mind on how they handle these things.

I think I am going to try it.  If things don't work or if things change I can yank it off of the secondary site.