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Stephen Ostermiller
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Google indexing duplicate content despite a canonical tag pointing to an extarnal URL. Am I risking a penalty from Google?

I have a website. It has content that already exists somewhere on other sites. I have added a canonical tag, nevertheless Google index those URLs.

I'm not concerned about these pages being indexed, only thing I want to know is whether Google will take manual action and perhaps inflict a penalty for thin content on my site?