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You could use a rel="canonical" pointing to the preferred version of each page. This isn't as optimal as using a 301 because I believe Bing still only considers the rel="canonical" a hint, but it sounds like your best bet at this point. Worth a shot.

Standard good practice for on-page SEO includes keeping page title length below the maximum that Google displays in the SERPs. But words in the title beyond that maximum can be indexed, even if they don't show in the SERPs for end users.

For ranking purposes, is there any value in words beyond the character limit in page titles that are truncated in the SERPs?

Thanks much, Anthony.

Any other opinions?

I know PR isn't a top ranking factor anymore, so "PR sculpting" isn't something to focus on. But isn't it still true that having more links that you need on any given page is worse than having fewer, in terms of that page's authority?

I'm managing a site that has a lot of navigational links in the footer, which are duplicative because they're almost all included in the top nav bar, and several are triplicated in the sidebar as well. I wanted to remove 85% of these duplicative links from the footer, thinking they diluted the page authority and that most users probably won't scroll there anyway when we launch the site.

The site owner is pushing back, though, not wanting to remove so many links because he believes they might be useful to some users. We can test our respective user-behavior theories after launching, but right now I have two questions:

1. Will having a sizable number of duplicative links in the footer dilute the page's authority?

and 2) Are there any other ways to reduce this dilution, aside from simply removing the links? (I know nofollow is not the answer, but possibly using iframes or Java or something like that?)

I'm confused about this as well. @Stephen, are you saying that at this point it isn't a best practice to nofollow, hide, or otherwise limit the number of internal links leaving an important page?

I'm in a similar position as Dancing Webmasters: one of the sites I manage has a lot of navigational footer links that are also shown in the header and side navigation bars. My first instinct was to simply remove most of them, knowing that the standard nofollow PR sculpting techniques have been dead for years. Are you saying that at this point it doesn't matter how many links are on any given page, in terms of page authority?

I already know that PR isn't a top factor anymore, but it was my understanding that the overall authority of a page would be diluted by having a large number of links on that page. That's not true?

Thanks

Kyle