I'm doing some research on duplicate content and wanted to figure out how I can successfully syndicate my blog to two different domains. After doing my research I came across a google article that explains that you can have duplicate content but you should create a rel="alternate" tag on the duplicated content so that it refers back to the domain/content that you wish to have indexed and displayed in the results.
Here is an article about the cross-domain url selection:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1716747?hl=en
And here is the article about rel="alternate" hreflang="x"
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077
It doesn't look like metatag currently supports this tag. It does look like it has a spot for "Original Source" () but should there also be an "Alternate" tag option?
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Comments
Comment #1
JayShoe CreditAttribution: JayShoe commentedPS this is not exactly a duplicate of https://www.drupal.org/node/1518224 because I'm interested in this for the purposes of duplicate content on different domains, not language related issues.
Comment #2
DamienMcKennaComment #3
DamienMcKennaBTW have you seen https://www.drupal.org/project/hreflang?
Comment #4
JayShoe CreditAttribution: JayShoe commentedAfter further review I think that maybe what I want to use is the canonical URL descriptor to point to my preferred domain! The Alternate tag does seem to be more related to languages and not for what I'm using it for.
What I'm trying to do is duplicate my blog so that I can have it on two sites for "usability". But I don't want to lose SEO because of it. So i guess what I should do is set the canonical url to point to the preferred domain with that meta tag...
I'm closing this.
Comment #5
DamienMcKennaLets change this to be a feature request to add a note about the hreflang module to the readme file.
Comment #6
DamienMcKennaThis adds a note to README.txt.
Comment #7
DamienMcKennaCommitted.