Duplicate content.

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Mitchell Schaffer: I own a company that specializes in content creation for a very focused group of clients.  ;I've created a site that highlights the work of all of my clients and I want to create a featured page for each client that is simply a copy/paste of their "About Us" page...  ; Technically, this page will be duplicate content since it already exists on their site.  ;I suspect the best solution here is to do a "no-idex" on their page on my community site.  ;Am I correct or is there a better way to handle this.  ;Please note, I know the best approach is to create original content but for the purposes of this project, we are not going to do that.
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  Jann Grond: Is it possible to use screenshots? If not, try rel canonical..
  
  http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content
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  Blade S: Adding a canonical tag on your page that points to their about page, is indeed a good idea.
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  Promoz SEO: Use both noindex nofollow on ;their page on your community site and as +Jann Grond ;suggested use rel canonical tag pointing their about page URL on your page will solve the problem.
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  Mitchell Schaffer: OK... Thank you for the quick responses.  ;I should probably explain a bit more.  ; The pages that I am creating on the new "group" site will have the About Us information at the top, but then also have Address and contact info,along with excerpts from the clients recent posts... So the page is not a 100% duplicate... Does that change anything that was already suggested? ;
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  Edwin Jonk: I can understand that you copy/past name, address, phone etc. However I wouldn't copy/paste the whole "about us" from your clients. You are a copy writer, so you should have the skills to write unique high quality content. ;-)
  
  Ping +David Rosam ;because I know you always make sense... :D
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  Mitchell Schaffer: I was clear in the question that for the purposes of this project, we are not doing that.  ;If I were going to do that, it would have eliminated the need for me to post this question.
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  Edwin Jonk: If you go ahead with the rel canonical (this way the links to your page will be passed to your client's page) do not use noindex:
  
  https://plus.google.com/+JohnELincoln/posts/TCJHwdZHdQc
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  Mitchell Schaffer: Perfect... So JUST the Canonical... Thanks.
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  Edwin Jonk: Yes, but keep in mind that Gbot doesn't appreciate copying/pasting content. In other words, if large sections are scraped from other sites G might frowned on it. ;And if the whole site is basically that, I would consider blocking Gbot by robots.txt. Because, that way Gbot isn't able to notice it... ;
  
  Still it sounds risky.
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  Richard Hearne: IMO I'd NOINDEX these pages and, unless you're feeling charitable, not canonicalise these pages to the client sites. If for some reason you feel like helping your clients then feel free to canonicalise, but otherwise you're certainly better off not letting Google index this content.
  
  +Edwin Jonk ;is quite correct about not mixing canonical and NOINDEX. ;
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  David Rosam: I try to +Edwin Jonk ;-)