Meta description tags & title tags duplicate content?

[qlkasdjfw]

Although meta description tags have no impact on rankings - can there be a negative effect from having many duplicate meta title + description tags with just 1-2 words switched out?

[TopGearMedia]

Meta description tag - It is true that search engines (especially Google) have started to ignore the description tag... it is still better to create unique ones. If you create the perfect description tag... (perfect means.... perfectly representing your page) then search engines will probably decide to show the one you have given yourself. I do think that will have some value and add some credibility to your website.

Meta Title tag - Never...ever.... have duplicate meta titles... bad bad bad.

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regards,

[SteveOllington]

Yes, it's not good practice so you'd do well to avoid it. I don't know in a technical sense whether Google would decide that a page that has a similar title to it's description would make any ranking difference, but if a bunch of pages had the same titles as each other then it definitely isn't good. Also, descriptions should be tailored to that individual page anyway, with whatever helps to encourage a click, which it wouldn't be if it was too similar to other pages.