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[iskq]

<title> </span>Home to home moving 4356 <span></title>  page A

<title> </span>Home to home moving 3723 <span></title>  page B

These two titles are the same?

[irvingw]

I have used unique identifiers to create unique page title before but only because it's a huge site that required automation - it's not the most elegant way to add dynamic unique content (but it does insure it which is why it's a good technique for huge sites) and could reduce CTR.

the problem i see here more is that both title tags are competing for the same thing. if users are able to generate similar description resulting in duplicate title tags that is probably very rare and you can probably go in and edit the ones that are duplicates by changing one character.

[Nick_Ker]

I think I understand now. You would have the customer generated listings ending up with duplicate titles so you were adding numbers to the end.

Maybe you could automatically add the location or the date of the listing to the title, or some other thing that would be unique to the listing so your titles would look like like "Home To Home Move in Mytown on May 20"

While it may not be important for these pages to show up in search, at least then they would be unique rather than looking like a bunch of duplicates.  This could also help you with local searches in the areas where your users have posted a listing.

[jesse-landry]

Well then, if I'm understanding you correctly, you shouldn't need these specific pages indexed anyway. Instead you should be promoting/doing SEO for the pages that lead you to the listing portal. So the duplicate titles or titles shouldn't matter or be a question..

?

[iskq]

Our site is a home to home moving listing portal. Consumers who wants to move his home fills a form so that moving companies can cote prices.  We were generating listing page URL’s by using the title submitted by customer. Unfortunately we have understood by now that many customers have entered exactly same title for their listings which has caused us having hundreds of similar page title

[Nick_Ker]

Technically, they are unique to a search engine bot. To a person, they are pretty much the same thing.

And like Jesse said, they are kind of lame - spammy, uninteresting, and the numbers make it look like some kind of indexing mistake.

[jesse-landry]

Yes and pretty terrible, also. Unless your only target keyword for each of those pages is "home to home moving.." but I can't imagine that particular search string receives many queries.

Consider your keywords and fit them into your title in a natural way. If I saw those titles listed in Google SERPs I'd avoid them like the plague.

Not trying to be critical, only trying to help. Hope I did.. Feel free to ask more questions!