Can I use rel=canonical when publishing articles on different sites?

Channel:
United States Google Search Central
Subscribers:
751,000
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XdFb6LGtM


Duration: 1:26
7,571 views
19

bflicker from Los Angeles, CA asks: "If we were to syndicate my written content (entire articles) to multiple domains then would we be able to use the imminent cross-domain link rel="canonical" tag to confirm which site we would like to index for a given piece of content?"

Note: This video was recorded on December 4, 2009. We have since officially announced support for cross-domain uses of rel="canonical". Please see this blog post for more information:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html



Other Videos By Google Search Central


2010-04-29How do you see search working a decade from now?
2010-04-28How does a user's location affect search results?
2010-04-27Can you give an update on the state of the UK SERPs?
2010-04-26How can people ask questions outside of conferences?
2010-04-22How many search algorithm changes were made in 2009?
2010-04-21How does Google rank sites which run on non-standard ports?
2010-04-20Can I exclude certain words from Googlebot?
2010-04-19Should I spend time on meta keywords tags?
2010-04-15What gadgets have you bought recently?
2010-04-14What is the future of semantic search?
2010-04-13Can I use rel=canonical when publishing articles on different sites?
2010-04-12Is there a way to mark a section of a page as being less important for snippets?
2010-04-08Which games do you play?
2010-04-07Are the webspam reports read by anyone?
2010-04-06How does URL structure affect PageRank?
2010-04-05Do pop-unders affect ranking?
2010-04-01What should we do about IE 6?
2010-03-31Why doesn't Google use reCAPTCHA?
2010-03-30Do links to non-canonical URLs pass any value to the canonical version?
2010-03-29Are there any negatives to generating a short list of 'related posts?'
2010-03-25Would you accept a job at Bing if the opportunity arose?


Tags:
google
seo
canonicalization