Duplicating my content with my permission

[Mohamed_E]

I have a web site that is well established in its small hobby niche. I am a member of a club that fits in my niche, and as they did not yet have a web site of their own I wrote several pages of information about them.

They now have a web site, and their webmaster is a friend. I would like to allow him to copy any pages he wants to, but want to be sure that Google knows that mine are the orginals.

As I see it, his copies will not be indexed, but anyone who goes to his site will find the info. And I will lose nothing.

Can I rely on Google to determine which page is the original and which is the copy? Or should I notify [e-mail]?

[mrguy]

Notifying Google will not help.

They are pretty busy there.

If the pages he copies are not to be indexed, just place a no index tag on each page and also put those pages in the robots.txt file for the Googlebot not to index them.

That should cover you alright.

[lazerzubb]

Yes i would use robots.txt or just load your pages in an iframe or a frameset, this would help since google doesn't read framesets, i would prefer the frame solution because then you can be sure that your page will not be "flagged" as a duplicate, otherwise just change small bits of the content and everything will probably go fine.

[CCowboy]

Just let your friend use your site as a guide. Re-write the tags, change up the text, image file names, change a few links and you should be fine.

I think Google is only looking for carbon copies.