Using Canonical Tags to Boost Lead Form Ranking

[shoffy]

I presently have a number of whitepapers that bring traffic to our site.  If a visitor elects to download the whitepaper they are taken to a lead form with an abstract of the whitepaper.  The abstract is present because the visitor may or may not have come to the lead form directly.

I imagine this would be a "no no," but how do you feel about placing a canoncial tag on a whitepaper that points to the lead form w/ abstract?

The obvious idea being to take the umph of a whitepaper to direction search visitors directly to the lead form.

[stevenmusumeche]

Since the content on the whitepaper would be significantly different from the content on your lead form, I wouldn't do it.  That doesn't mean it wouldn't work, it might, but I wouldn't do it.

[shoffy]

I am with you.  Seems sneaky since it's not to combat duplicate content.

Thank you for the validation.