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Unique page titles

by Steviebone
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Consider the two page titles below:

Search for "Valid Marriage" in California Law

Search for Valid Marriage in California Law

Would Google consider these two page titles unique? That is to say if both pages exist (with different content) would this be considered a duplicate title? Or would Google recognize the difference?

I'm thinking that the quotes might be ignored and maybe I should find a different way of making sure the page titles are unique.
#page #titles #unique
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    No, they're not unique.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lee
    With that logic, all of these would be unique titles lol

    "Search for Valid Marriage in California Law"
    Search for "Valid Marriage" in California Law
    Search for "Valid Marriage in" California Law
    Search for "Valid Marriage in California" Law
    Search "for Valid Marriage" in California Law
    Search "for" Valid Marriage in California Law
    "Search" for Valid Marriage in California Law
    "Search for" Valid Marriage in California Law
    Search for Valid Marriage in "California Law"
    Search for Valid Marriage in "California" Law
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    They are both the same. The quotes mean nothing unless it is a search term.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Even a single different character in title will make it unique. But as a good practice, put more and more uniqueness in titles as you can.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steviebone
      Originally Posted by webdevpro View Post

      Even a single different character in title will make it unique. But as a good practice, put more and more uniqueness in titles as you can.
      I don't think so. It depends on what the character is how google sees it. While enclosing something in quotes when performing a google search can return different results, the same cannot be said for how google sees the title and indexes it. Stop words and punctuation, as far as I can tell, are NOT indexed in any way.

      I opted for making sure all titles were as unique as possible excluding any stop words and punctuation or special characters. Given the quantity of pages that took some careful planning.
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  • Profile picture of the author Timmywat
    No, they are not unique, try use unique on every page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Humstudents
    These titles are have some difference but you should not write like this because these are looking same.Title should be different and totally unique so that you can get better ranking in search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author ventureprofits
    They're all the same, and if u want to verify, feel free to do a Google search.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnTimmins
    They are not unique. I suggest that you create a more compelling title both for Google and for your readers that will click your link once it will appear higher on the serps.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlphaWarrior
    Would these two samples be considered to be unique or the same page title?

    Valid Marriage, California Law
    California Law, Valid Marriage

    I can see where you could have two completely unique articles, one written from the perspective of a valid marriage, and the other written from the perspective of California law.
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