Potential Duplicate Title Tags On Sibling Pages
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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!
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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!
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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.
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It would be best to link to the pages in question. This often times saves people from guessing what you want to say.
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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.
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This would be a good example of canonicalizing your pages. SEOmoz has several other pages as well.
I hope this answers your question
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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.
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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.
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