Potential Duplicate Title Tags On Sibling Pages
-
Edit I'll take the fall on this one, seems I could have asked my quesiton in a more clear manner. I was cruising other questions and finding a whole of answers that I suspect were not truly intended to help, but maybe help and earn Mozpoints.
Wasn't fair of me to label those answering here with that. I will work better on the wording of my questions!
Edit Either I am asking my question poorly or I am learning there may be a rush to get points by throwing up any old answer...it very well may be the former which I am open to feedback on.
Each page is to stand alone and hopefully rank well for the neighbourhood name and in conjunction with another relevant keyword phrase. There is no 'duplicate' version of any pages. *
On a site there are numerous pages that provide real estate listings broken down by neighbourhood. Each containing similar content, a abbreviated version of the listings, often spanning 2 or 3 pages.
These are 3rd level pages.
Properties->Calgary Neighbourhoods->Evanston
The title tags created are:
Evanston Homes For Sale - NW Calgary Real Estate
Panorama Hills Home For Sale - NW Calgary Real Estate
Etc. for about 15 or so pages.
Then they start again for another area of the city:
Sagewood Homes For Sale - Airdrie Real Estate
Woodside Homes For Sale - Airdrie Real Estate
At this point there is no text on the actual page outside of the listings...an example of similar listings on another site - http://www.experiencerealtygroup.com/BaturynandDunluceHomes.ubr
Do you think the SE's will see these as 'proper' use of the Title Tag or duplicate or other practices they tend to frown upon?
It is a logical way of creating the title and obviously creating a unique version for each page would not only be tough to scale on some sites with 100's of these pages, they would become a little silly and not much use to the searcher in the SERPs
Thanks for any help!
-
Ya, you got it right. I was worried that only changing out one word may look spammy to the SE's.
I will work on wording my Q's better!
-
I think I'm understanding it better now.
As for the initial question of "Do you think the SE's will see these as 'proper' use of the Title Tag or duplicate or other practices they tend to frown upon," I don't see why your titles should be a problem. Having the neighborhood name in the title is nice and would better target those looking for properties in a specific neighborhood.
I have to admit, I was a bit confused as to what the main question was - let me know if I got that right.
-
It would be best to link to the pages in question. This often times saves people from guessing what you want to say.
-
No. Either I did a poor job asking the question or you misunderstood the question.
It has nothing to do with canonicalizing. Each page is to stand alone and hopefully rank well for the neighbourhood name and in conjunction with another relevant keyword phrase. There is no 'duplicate' version of any pages.
-
This would be a good example of canonicalizing your pages. SEOmoz has several other pages as well.
I hope this answers your question
-
I am more concerned about the neighbourhood level pages not each listing... http://www.experiencerealtygroup.com/BaturynandDunluceHomes.ubr. These are not created by the CMS, we create these by hand. It does need to be scalable though as we are creating hundreds of these page each week for our clients. When we have multiple clients in the same area we do mix up the wording of the title tag so we are not creating duplicate title tags amongst them.
Thoughts?
As you noticed the CMS gets pretty busy creating unwieldy URLs. The CMS auto creates the title tags for each listing. I am working on convincing them the change how these are auto created into something more appropriate. The URLs...I will be old and grey before I can convince them that needs to change.
Challenge in the real state space is always access to listing data, the CMS companies know this and for most of their users access to the listings on their site is all they think we need. So while Ubertor is very good in listening to our change requests they also get that we ask for changes that are relevant to less then 1% of their customers.
-
I take it that the title tags are auto-generated by your CMS, right?
It might count for duplicate title tags (as specified in the PRO campaign tool), but if the listings themselves are different, I don't see it as a big issue.
You might want to have the listing pages pull titles from the listings; for example, this listing should take the name of the property and use it in the title as "17043 98 ST, Edmonton - Baturny and Dunluce Homes" or something to that effect per listing.
Also noticed that your URLs use a lot of parameters; may want to look into that as well.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Multiple H1 tags on Squarespace blog page?
Hi All, I use Squarespace and while running my site (https://www.growmassagebusiness.com) through programs am seeing that my blog posts are being seen as one page with multiple H1 tags. I read through the SS help desk and found back in 2015 someone wrote that it's not a bit deal b/c of HTML5 and that the search engines will read each blog post as a sub-page. I'm not so sure about that and wondering what the experts think? If that is screwy then I'm considering possibly making each blog post it's own page rather than using their blog posting format.
On-Page Optimization | | rajam0 -
Duplicate Page content | What to do?
Hello Guys, I have some duplicate pages detected by MOZ. Most of the URL´s are from a registracion process for users, so the URL´s are all like this: www.exemple.com/user/login?destination=node/125%23comment-form What should I do? Add this to robot txt? If so how? Whats the command to add in Google Webmaster? Thanks in advance! Pedro Pereira
On-Page Optimization | | Kalitenko20140 -
Title tag of product page including category keyword?
I'm doing some work on a site that essentially is about giving and getting reviews. It's heirarchy has categories and products within those categories. For the title tag of the product pages, they currently have "Best {Category} | {Product} Reviews" I've advised them that they should remove the "Best {Category}" part because a) they're already targeting the category pages themselves and b) from a user perspective, the product page should just have a title tag that makes sense for that particular page (the page is not necessarily the "best" and certainly is not a series of products within that category). I wanted to post here to confirm that my advice is sound. Thanks.
On-Page Optimization | | jim_shook0 -
Title tag length
Hi, I am fairly new to SEO and have just noticed the end of my title text has been cut off by Google in the serps results. Everything i have read tells me titles should be maximum of 70 characters, however, Google is only displaying 54. See below Security systems | wireless | battery powered | Police... Nobody else on the page is showing more than 54 characters. Am i missing something obvious? Any and all help gratefully appreciated. Thanks Si
On-Page Optimization | | DaddySmurf0 -
Title Tag, Internal Categories, Long tail
Hello, For internal categories - those that are not in the main navigation - we're optimizing for the long tail. How do you optimize the title tag for the long tail? For example if the internal category is about Men's shoes -> "Adidas Crosstrainers" and you already have a page in the main navigation with "Adidas Crosstrainers" in the title, what kind of title do you use for the long tail category? These categories are usually for the convenience of the user. I assume they should each have at least 500 words in them to do the best long tail searches. Thanks.
On-Page Optimization | | BobGW0 -
Is it damaging to have TOO long a title tag these days? i.e. well over character limit
Is it damaging to have TOO long a title tag these days? i.e. well over character limit. I learned that title tags should be around 70 characters. I am new at this, but have a client that has three times that, with the same three keyword phrases repeating 3-4 times. And then NO h1's or h2's in the text......advice? Rookie here 🙂
On-Page Optimization | | cschwartzel0 -
Offer landing page, duplicate content and noindex
Hi there I'm setting up a landing page for an exclusive offer that is only available (via a link) to a particular audience. Although I've got some specific content (offer informaiton paragraph), i want to use some of the copy and content from one of my standard product pages to inform the visitors about what it is that i'm trying to sell them. Considering I'm going to include a noindex on this page, do i need to worry about it having some content copied directly from another page on my site? Thanks
On-Page Optimization | | zeegirl0 -
Title Tag Over Optimization
Hey, I've read that adding the company name to the title tag was a waste of space since the more words the less weight each one has, with all this over optimization preventive measures, should I rewrite the title tags format with company names? and if so should it be (company name): (naturally organized keywords) (naturally organized keyword) | (Company name). or can I keep it just naturally organized keywords Also I used to do (keyphrase) - (keyphrase) instead of commas, should I fix this? I asked this question on Randy's post http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-changes-every-seo-should-make-before-the-over-optimization-penalty-hits-whiteboard-friday but didn't really get an answer. Thanks!
On-Page Optimization | | nrv0