Should I worry about duplicate titles on pages where there is paginated content?
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LivingThere.com is a real estate search site and many of our content pages are "search result" - ish in that a page often provides all the listings that are available and this may go on for multiple pages.
For example, this is a primary page about a building:
http://livingthere.com/building/31308-Cocoa-Exchange
Because of the number of listings, the listings paginate to a second page:
http://livingthere.com/building/31308-Cocoa-Exchange?MListings_page=2
Both pages have the same Page Title. Is this a concern? If so is there a "best practice" for giving paginated content different titles?
Thanks!
Nate
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You should always worry about ANY duplcate content, whether it is tags, tilte, description or actual on-page content.
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If you're paginating correctly then there shouldn't be a problem but you probably want to add some indication of the page number into the title for clarity for users.There's an old post by Rand about it here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience
Although, as you're loading in the new results with AJAX I'm not sure if this complicates matters or simplifies them. I wouldn't foresee there being any problems but haven't experienced it first hand.
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