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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? by Adam Sherk on December 16, 2009 Yesterday Google announced that it is now supporting the rel=&# canonical&# link element (sometimes referred to as the canonical URL tag) across different domains.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 2)

Firebelly

This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. What do you think? Your comment has not yet been posted.

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Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Adam Sherk

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1)

Firebelly

Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. Syndicating all of your tweets into your Facebook status updates is inconsiderate. It allows you to update your Facebook status from Twitter, but you can choose which tweets you want to syndicate by ending the tweet with the hashtag #fb. Its annoying. Am I alone here?

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

You’d be surprised at how many existing links (both internal and external) may be pointing to incorrect or discontinued URLs. A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site.

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New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com urls

Adam Sherk

So the bottom line is, the NYT SEO team strongly advocated the use of permanent 301 redirects from all IHT.com URLs to the corresponding new URLs on NYTimes.com, and they are continuing to do what they can internally to get this implemented as soon as possible. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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