: How to cross-link multiple sites with duplicate content that is search engine friendly? I am in the scenario where I have my content duplicated over multiple cross domains. I don't want to get

@Gonzalez347

The best solution is to not have duplicated content :)

Crosslinking is not a good idea either, because from what I understand, you'd do that for search engines and not the users. We would still find the duplicated content and potentially index them, which may result in duplication in the results.

What I'd do is to 301 redirect the unoriginal content to the original one, or if this is not possible, use the canonical link element to hint us which version is the canonical, "original" one.

Here's this Help Center article about rel=canonical, Matt even explains in a few words what it is all about: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

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