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I agree - but as with many things, there's politics involved. . . . . I'll leave it at that.

Hi Folks,

I've got a client who has a duplicate content because they actually create duplicate content and store the same piece of content in 2 different places.

When they generate this duplicate content, it creates a 2nd link on the site going to the duplicate content. Now they want the 2nd link to always redirect to the first link, but for architecture reasons, they can't remove the 2nd link from the site navigation.

We can't use rel-canonical because they don't want visitors going to that 2nd page.

Here is my question: Are there any adverse SEO implications to maintaining a link on a site that always redirects to a different page?

I've already gone down the road of "don't deliberately create duplicate content" with the client. They've heard me, but won't change.

So, what are your thoughts?

Thanks!