Are Duplicate TITLE Tags Bad For Search Engine Optimization?

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hi,
As you know title tag is one of the most important aspect of on page optimization as well as during searches. let me know what could happened if some one have let say 5 pages in his site with same title tags?
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  • Profile picture of the author trade4861
    Usually Google will only show one page with same title, not all pages, which ever one it likes the best. I would make each title nearly identical but not identical. When I do this I usually get 4 pages, sometimes more showing in search results.
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  • Profile picture of the author seomaster5
    Using same title and contents on sites is not good according to me title and description should be unique.
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  • Profile picture of the author sps778
    It should be unique in order to get good SERP.
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  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    Originally Posted by Forteam04 View Post

    hi,
    As you know title tag is one of the most important aspect of on page optimization as well as during searches. let me know what could happened if some one have let say 5 pages in his site with same title tags?
    Dude you just answered your own question.

    "As you know title tag is one of the most important aspect of on page optimization"
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenWatanabe
    I have found that different searched can yield different results. Some searches will have duplicate keywords in the title, but most will not. When ever I am trying to optimize a website for a keyword, I take a look at the top results on the serp. It is a clear indicator of what you should be modeling after. Take what they are doing and copy it -- Google is ranking them for a reason. Offpage SEO is another topic and we can save for another day
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Hill SEO
    Imagine a room full of people called john...a blind man walks in and shouts John
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Forteam04 View Post

    hi,
    As you know title tag is one of the most important aspect of on page optimization as well as during searches. let me know what could happened if some one have let say 5 pages in his site with same title tags?
    Two words, Supplemental SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdeep
    It won't hurt you but it does mean you are not ensuring that G picks up the exact title tag you want it to. There is some debate about which one it will actually choose - most I think feel it will choose the first one it finds - but unless you are absolutely equally happy with all the duplicates, you will want to control which one G uses by eliminating the others.

    Excellent question by the way - comes up often.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by webdeep View Post

      It won't hurt you but it does mean you are not ensuring that G picks up the exact title tag you want it to. There is some debate about which one it will actually choose - most I think feel it will choose the first one it finds - but unless you are absolutely equally happy with all the duplicates, you will want to control which one G uses by eliminating the others.

      Excellent question by the way - comes up often.
      Google will still index all the pages with the same page title, the problem is 4 of those 5 pages (example) will get buried in Supplemental SERPs, so as far as SEO goes those duplicate pages might as well not exist because traffic will never find the duplicate pages.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Google will still index all the pages with the same page title, the problem is 4 of those 5 pages (example) will get buried in Supplemental SERPs, so as far as SEO goes those duplicate pages might as well not exist because traffic will never find the duplicate pages.
        Someone told me that's why most Amazon scraper sites don't work and by just changing the titles it had much more chance of success.

        So yeah makes sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Theeban
    I had read somewhere (may be in Google guidelines), it is mentioned that, to have unique titles and unique meta descriptions for each and every page of a website. That really gives more clarity, uniqueness among pages on a particular site.
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    • Profile picture of the author justmebob
      I am wondering if in order to avoid having duplicate post titles if I put a different date in each one that would be enough. The reason I ask is I have blog about my business and mostly what I do is paint a typical steel garage door to look like wood. So all my posts on that are basically the same titles which are variations of "Painting a garage door to look like wood". So if I put a date in there is that enough to make each post title unique and avoid the duplicate post title situation?

      Also I am wondering if google changed something this past fall as I have noticed my daily traffic dropped by half starting in like Oct.

      Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    There's a way to have the [exact] same page <title> on a bunch of internal pages & getting the pages to all show up in Google SERPs (avoiding Supplemental SERPs). I posted on the subject about a week ago (it's here somewhere).
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