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[jammin' Jake]

Hello all - I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts or experience with an issue I've been thinking about lately...

I have been presented with an opportunity to participate in a blogging community where original posts from my blog would be run on another blogger's website. Essentially I put up a new blog, Feedburner (or other RSS service) picks it up and loads it into this blogger's website.

Absolute credit is given to me as the author as well as a link to our blog. Branding-wise this is a great opportunity even though traffic isn't expected to skyrocket. However I worry about duplicate content issues here. Our blog gets a lot of organic traffic and subsequent "poking around" and I'd hate to jeopardize this.

Anyone have any thoughts or experience on this issue? Any HTML code I can upload into the posts to ensure the SEs see our original post, not the duplicate on this individual's site? Will the SEs recognize that the feed is coming from our blog via Feedburner?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Jake

[Michael Martinez]

If it's every post you should not do it, in my opinion. The other site may attract more links than your site and rank above your site for its own name (this has happened to me where spammers have scraped my blog content continuously).

I think a better solution might be to just contribute to the other blog while you maintain your own original content. That requires more effort but increases your visibility.

[Jill]

Anyone have any thoughts or experience on this issue? Any HTML code I can upload into the posts to ensure the SEs see our original post, not the duplicate on this individual's site? Will the SEs recognize that the feed is coming from our blog via Feedburner?

No, but who cares? It should be good exposure either way don't you think?

If the other site gets a lot of eyeballs, then you should totally do it.

[amabaie]

I'm with Jill. I've had clients complain when one of their articles or news releases on another site (such as PRweb or EzineArticles.com)outranks their own site for some search term, and I have never understood why. Overnight they rank #1 or #2 for the search term, long before their own site could ever hope to rank so high for the term -- and they are complaining?!?

[jammin' Jake]

I think the visibility/branding issues outweigh any negative SEO effects in this case. However, I think I'll keep an eye out for the effects that Michael mentioned...

Thanks for the input!