Backlink an article thats already on the web

[edward-may]

Hey Mozers,

Just wondering I noticed a few sites show "this article first appeared on domain.com" if there has been an article published on another site and is now publsihed on ours, how do we create a backlink to say it had first appeared on "domain.com"

Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

[UmarKhan]

Hey Edward,

It's always a pleasure to answer your questions I'll try my best to give you the satisfactory answer this time again

Edward, this practice is usually adopted for the readers and traffic.. Yes, for the readers & traffic..

Let's suppose, if I run a fitness blog and have quite decent readership. I notice that the bodybuilding.com recently featured the interview of Jay Cutler, I would love to re-publish that interview again on mine for my readers. I know, there are high chances that people have already been read about it but as you know every site has different readership belongs to entirely different geography. It would be a great read for my audience as they might have missed to read at the original place.

Plus, it will also help my blog to get rank on "Jay Cutler interviews" related queries. I know, I'll be giving away a link from my site but this one outgoing link can reap lots of benefits in terms of traffic, increasing readership, building connections with original sources etc.

Hope this helps!

Umar

[edward-may]

Hi Umar,

Thanks so much for answering my questions, your feedback has been really great!

Just wanted to ask, how would you backlink to the article in technically?

[UmarKhan]

hmm it would be slightly difficult to get the natural backlinks on that. Obviously, you can link it from your guest posts to other blogs but yielding natural one is bit hard.

[edward-may]

Sorry Umar, I guess my question was, how do I grant credit to the original post?  I hear it has something to do with rel=canonnical (this post was first seen on domain.com) but i guess how would I reference that in techinical terms?