Publishing your content on a higher authority site than yours, Good or Bad?

[Josuah]

We are about to publish our content as an affiliate on a site clearly more important than ours, higher domain authorithy, stronger backlink profile and so on.

If in each duplicated product page they link back to us, is it ok? or even doing it could be a problem of duplicate content?

[driller41]

I would never put my best content on another site, certainly not on a higher authority site as you mention.

Why not outsource some cheap material from fivrr and put that up to get the backlink you mention.

[netmeg]

Do you have to put all of it? I mean, I guest blog every now and then on higher authority sites, but I would never put everything out there on a property I don't own.

At the very least, I would test it with just a few pages first and see what happens.

[Josuah]

It's going to be all of it. Is not an option so I have to find the best to way to do it. Maybe we can ask them to noindex those product pages but by default they do that, index all but link to the original product page.

With those links, do you think that Google would recognise us as the original source? or it would be still dangerous for us?

[netmeg]

I think you'd be very lucky if Google recognized you as the original source, and it's more likely the other source will outrank you. Link or no link. If they are higher authority, they'll probably get more benefit of the doubt than you will.

[aristotle]

Why don't you put canonical metatags in your headers pointing to your own pages. If the other site republishes all of your source code for each page unchanged, then their pages will point to yours as the originals. I don't see any downside to doing this so it Might be worth a try.