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Not putting canonical on NOFOLLOW pages makes all sense in the world, because if page has NOFOLLOW, then bots WILL NOT FOLLOW ANY links on it, including canonical link. **P.S. **If your question has been answered, please mark it as answered to prevent trashing the forum

Thank you Miriam.  We have switched from one brand to another (EasyStreet to Highgarden) in a couple of our markets.  We implemented a 301 redirect strategy for those sites and saw very little effect on our organic traffic. Thanks again for your input.

Sorry, god only knows how I missed that. Well in that case I think you are doing what is recomended, I generally think of the canonical tag as similar to a 301 redirect. You are telling the search engines that the two pages should be treated as one and then specifying the page that is to be the front-man of the two. I think the normal proceedure is to have robot.txt for private/personal information, nofollow and noindex for duplicate content however the canonical tag is an easy solution to duplicate content as it is simply one line in the header.