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Hi,

Our team has recently acquired several newsletter titles from a competitor.

We are currently deciding how to handle the archive content on their website which now belongs to us.

We are thinking of leaving the content on their site (so as not to suddenly remove a chunk of their website and harm them) but also replicating it on ours with a canoncial link to say our website is the original source.

The articles on their site go back as far as 2010.

Do you think it would help or hinder our site to have a lot of old archive content added to it? I'm thinking of content freshness issues.Even though the content is old some of it will still be interesting or relevant.

Or do you think the authority and extra traffic this content could bring in makes it worth migrating.

Any help gratefully received on the old content issue or the idea of using canonical links in this way.

Many Thanks