Transfer: Managing SEO signals for syndicated content: Google's response

In response to Lily Ray's question about what happens to SEO signals when Google selects a partner site as canonical for syndicated content, Google's John Mueller noted that not all of the elements she asked about are used by Google. He noted that if a page is recognized as canonical, then it is most likely to receive a reward from Google's ranking systems.

If we recognize a page as canonical, then that page will likely be rewarded by our ranking systems - said John Mueller.

🚀 Google announced last year that it no longer recommends using cross-domain canonical links on syndicated content. Instead, she suggests using the noindex meta tag on the partner site to block Google from indexing the site if the original publisher wants to be sure that link signals for the content are going to them and not the syndication partner.

• 📌 The noindex meta tag helps block Google from indexing your site so that link signals go to the original publisher and not to the syndication partner.