HTML-tag to annotate the origin of a section?

Question

Google don't like it when you use same content across multiple sites, according to some.

Is there any way to annotate/tag a block of content with the "source".

Something like an attribute:

<div original-content="http://some.url">

The purpose is solely to let Google that we have duplicated the content (I.e. not as part of a search ranking strategy). Search engines could then use this information somehow.

Answer 1

Use the canonical tag, which tells the web engine crawler that the text is duplicated from the original website.

Example:

Place this in the header of your HTML page (in the duplicated content page)

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.original-website.com" />

Reference: Canonical URL Tag - The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps

Answer 2

This might help you out:

http://searchengineland.com/google-creates-metatags-to-help-id-original-news-sources-56115

Looks like the meta tag you want is

meta name=”original-source” content=”[url]”

However it looks like that is only for an entire page.

Answer 3

No, HTML has no such element or attribute.

If you quote the content (in a q or blockuote element), you could use the cite attribute. But you must not use these elements for anything other than quotes.

If the whole document is duplicated (or is a subset), you could use the canonical link type. But you must not use this if only part of the document is duplicated while the other parts are different.