: You want to ask yourself what's the purpose of having these articles on your site? Since the articles have been authored by someone else and already published on another site, Google won't

@Rambettina238

You want to ask yourself what's the purpose of having these articles on your site?

Since the articles have been authored by someone else and already published on another site, Google won't give you "credit" for them so they won't help your site build relevance or authority. Therefore, they'll be no help in driving traffic because they'll likely not appear in search results.

If you're publishing them on your site for your current visitors, or as landing page content, that's a valid use, if they offer value to the people who visit your site.

To be safe, you absolutely should use the rel=canonical tag on these. This is your way of telling Google you're not trying to claim credit for them as your original content. It's sort of like putting an image credit under a photo, so people know who actually took the picture.

You should still have your own original and useful content. If the majority of your content is duplicate (even if it's used with permission and with the canonical tagging) your site still risks a lower quality rating because it offers nothing unique or different.

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