Duplicate content - canonical vs link to original and Flash duplication

[Alex-Harford]

Here's the situation for the website in question:

The company produces printed publications which go online as a page turning Flash version, and as a separate HTML version. To complicate matters, some of the articles from the publications get added to a separate news section of the website. We want to promote the news section of the site over the publications section.

If we were to forget the Flash version completely, would you:

a) add a canonical in the publication version pointing to the version in the news section?

b) add a link in the footer of the publication version pointing to the version in the news section?

c) both of the above?

d) something else?

What if we add the Flash version into the mix? As Flash still isn't as crawlable as HTML should we noindex them? Is HTML content duplicated in Flash as big an issue as HTML to HTML duplication?

[AlanMosley]

Both

But definatly Canonical