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I have a client that uses Sharepoint as their CMS and they are having a tough time getting cannonical tags to work on the website without breaking other items.

Has anyone had a similar experience?  Do you have any resources that could help?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

That is what I thought, but wanted to make sure.  Thank you for responding.

The forced pageviews I am referring to are on the analytics side of things.  It is code that is put in place to trigger analytics into thinking that the website user has viewed multiple pages.   There is not an actual page the user sees.

Since the page views are contained within analytics I don't think that there should be a problem.  I just wanted to reach out to see if anyone has experience using this technology and how it effected rankings.

This article I thought was a little bit useful.  Just found it today when searching about the same problem.

http://webanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/03/finding-not-provided-keywords-in-google.html

I have a website that was built for the primary purpose of showing HTML 5 capabilities.  With this, we have to create forced page views within analytics in order to receive any data about consumer behavior on the site.

Are search engines viewing these forced page views as actual webpages?  Does it even effect SEO efforts?

The pages with the city specific information but similar content are pretty much the perfect space for a canonical tag.  If you feel that they haven't been penalized, then this is probably the method they are using for hosting the same content.

What about the fact that each of the sites post content that references the other brands' websites?  Do you feel that I should avoid linking to the sites in the content being generates?  Maybe use no follows so the reader can get to the site, but not have the spiders follow...

I have 7 brands that are owned by the same company, each with their own domain.  The brands work together to form products that are then sold to the consumer although there is not a e-commerce aspect to any of the sites.

I am looking to create a modified link wheel between the sites, but didn't know if my efforts would pay off due to the same IP Address for all the sites.

Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.