Using canonical to protect or identify blog articles

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Bringer, Jun 28, 2011.

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    Hi,

    Yesterday I found out that my blog articles are being scraped.
    This hasn't affected me much because even if that blog has hundreds of articles, its pagerank is null.

    Now, I know very little about SEO, website developing languages, etc., but read that using canonical can be a great way to say search engines that the original article belongs to a certain blog.

    I guess that the scraping is being done with the help of some programme and not manually.

    Anyway, my question is this: when using a canonical reference, on each post, should the link be the one of that post or of my blog's home page ?

    <link href='http://theartinquirer.blogspot.com' rel='canonical'/>
    or
    <link href='http://theartinquirer.blogspot.com/2011/06/52-weeks-of-free-art-by-crystal-despain.html' rel='canonical'/>

    Or should I use a meta tag do define who's the author of the blog article and the name of the original blog ?

    Thanks for any opinions that you may share.
    I believe that this subject can be of great use to other rmembers

    Take care,

    José
     
    Bringer, Jun 28, 2011 IP