Can I use canonical or alternate URLs such that there is SEO benefit to both...

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My company manages a network of local websites, all of which run on separate subdomains. Each subdomain represents a different locality (eg brooklyn.example.com, queens.example.com). Often, we have content that's great for multiple localities, and we post that same content on multiple sub-domains (eg brooklyn.example.com/g-train-schedule, queens.example.com/g-train-schedule). The content is useful to both sites, but right now we're using...

Originally asked by Travis on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Canonical is not a get out of duplicate jail free card Duplicate content is duplicate content. Using <cite> <link rel="canonical"> and so on doesn’t make your content any less duplicate. If you have hundreds to thousands of pages that are duplicate, then you can expect your site to rank badly or even not at all on some/most/all search terms. In fact, too many of these type of pages will likely make your site rank extremely poorly on every page, never mind the duplicate pages. Unique and duplicate content You can, however, get Google to index your pages if your pages have some content of their own. For example, if you’re reviewing a movie and you want to include 5 different reviews and...

Full answer by Simon Hayter: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/76943 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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