: PRweb and canonical linking My lovely marketing department have started publishing press releases on PRWeb. Whilst opinions on this service differ wildly I have a SEO question which I would like

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My lovely marketing department have started publishing press releases on PRWeb. Whilst opinions on this service differ wildly I have a SEO question which I would like to garner some input on. They have asked if our own website can be updated based on the XML feed from PRWeb, to save having to update multiple sites at once.

If the PRweb content was then published on our own site the content "origin" would be PRweb - who has it's own canonical tag pointing to itself.


Would our own site therefore be penalised by Google/Bing for being duplicate content?
If we added a canonical to the PRweb on our own site version, our page itself would be flagged as being less important than PRWeb?


My thoughts are the the article should be posted directly onto our site and the PRweb should have a canonical pointing to our site. Posting to PRweb first with a canonical pointing to our own site would require some time paradox/manipulation.

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