Dynamic title
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Hey folks!
Newbie here, tried searching for it, but couldn't find a definite answer.
I run a large video sharing site and recently started battling the duplicate title and meta description tags issues GWT reported.
Here's an example:
2 different members upload a video described as "My BMW".
Since the site is running on templates, both videos have the same meta title and meta description. Everything one the page is different, except the meta title and description.
The only way I can make it unique is to insert the current VIEWS count in the meta title and description and they would look like this:
Video 1 meta title/desc - My BMW video in Cars category | X views
Video 2 meta title/desc - My BMW video in Cars category | Y views
The problem is that the value of X and Y is changing all the time! Does this matter?
Sincerely,
H.Marinov
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This may be a little late to the game, but, Dynamic Page titles in IMO are not great. However, Will including page Views in the title benefit the users? Maybe.
But I don't think that one or two dup page titles will kill your SEO.
Worse case, could you mod your system to not allow Title which have already been used?
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Bump?
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Any other opinions?
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If you use an id you will not have a dynamic meta title but it is always the same
first spoke of current views, in this case you will have a dynamic title and from my point of view this is not good if you want to index the single video
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I can add an ID, I thought of this already, but this isn't what my question is about.
The question is whether having a dynamic (changing) meta title and description will be bad or not.
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you can't add a id?
Video 1 meta title/desc - My BMW video in Cars category | by maurizio Lecce 45
Video 1 meta title/desc - My BMW video in Cars category | by maurizio Lecce 46
Bye
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Unfortunately this won't work because there are members with more than one video with the same description...
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Hi
If you want that the title is always different in every videos you can do so:
Video 1 meta title/desc - My BMW video in Cars category | by maurizio Lecce
Video 2 meta title/desc - My BMW video in Cars category | by Adilet Nasirdinov
You can always add the names of members to the title, so it's sure that is different.
Bye
Maurizio
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