Duplicate titles- what quailfies??
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What qulifies as a duplicate title?
If I have one tile
Kelowna Real estate Smith McLellan Group
and another title
Kelowna Condos Smith Mclellan Group
Is that a dupilcate title??
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the pipe or hyphen practice is just for aesthetic purposes and does not have an SEO value associated with it. You are ok to use the brand name in multiple titles along with unique keywords associated with them. Should not have any downside to it. Here's a link to a post discussing this practice.
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How does the pipe or hyphen help? With the pipe it looks (to me) like the Smith Mclellan group it Duplicated????
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I have just checked this in actual fact the difference in the title is just a letter : edpm e seal & edpm p seal so just one letter although two different products & are reported as duplicate titles, so you could be correct as to just one word not being counted as a duplicate.
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Really...
I have never seen this in Webmaster Tools, even with very similar Title tags.
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Webmaster tools would report this as a duplicate title as I have a similar issue with 2 titles where only one word is changed in the phrase.
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No that's not a duplicate title.
Duplicate <title>tags are exact copies which appear on multiple pages on your website.</p> <p>Each page should have a unique Page Title which effectively describes the content of the page... Titles should be no longer than 70 - 85 Characters in length.</p> <p>One area where duplicate title tags are common is with dynamic content, eCommerce sites which use product filtering for example might cause duplicate content (not just the title tag).</p> <p>There is a danger that any dynamic URL will produce duplicate content, if two versions get indexed by the search engines... eg:</p> <p>www.somewebsite.co.uk/index.php?cPath=89&zenid=rbkma1v62ra64qrpfhc3lsm774<br /><br />&<br /><br />www.somewebsite.co.uk/index.php</p> <p>Also be aware that if the www. redirect isn't in place on a website it may also produce duplicate content and title tags.</p> <p>www.somesite.co.uk/page.html</p> <p>&</p> <p>somesite.co.uk/page.html</p></title>
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Hi,
In my opinion this is not a duplicate title. From the above example it seems like you are trying to optimize the pages for 2 different keywords ( Kelowna Real Estate and Kelowna Condos)
From an aesthetic perspective you might want to consider adding hyphens or pipes between the keywords and your brand. ( e.g Kelowna Real estate | Smith McLellan Group )
You may also want to consider putting your brand name first in the title tag if it has branding and is popular with your target audience to impact the click thru rates in the search engine results.
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