Microsite question

[gXeSEO]

Good morning, I have a client who is a local realtor www.chantre.com and they have several locations in their region. We created individual sites for their locations that are linked from their main site (on the left bottom).

I need some advice and guidance...

• Are the location sites a good consideration as microsites?
• I know we should include the rel=canonical tag and are in the process of doing so, but any comments on this would be appreciated
• I know the answer to this one, but the client insists on continually asking about it...would it be better to have the location sites linked from the main site as subdomains?
• Any other suggestions to either prove or disprove our technique in breaking out the location sites, whether it's a good idea or if we are harming their SEO is appreciated

THANKS!
Darlene

[irvingw]

Separate sites are better than subdomains, but you probably could have done this all under the one main domain.

If you're doing interlinking i would nofollow the links, or if you need to dofollow the links then i would only link from the microsites to the main site.