Keyword Dulication in Tags

[Jacobe]

As I mostly work with Belgian/Dutch customers, my keywords are often in Dutch. We have a lot of composite words such as "hooikoortsklachten" or "hooikoortverwachting".

If i were to create a Page Title with content:

Hooikoortsklachten | hooikoortsverwachting

Is this parly duplicated (because of the word hooikoorts x2)? or does Google only consider the entire word?

Insights would be much appreciated! Thanks

[DanDeceuster]

This is not a duplicate issue. In english it would be like adding -ing to something. Walk and walking. Two different words, and in fact, it's good to use both in my opinion, as that shows Google more relevance to that root term. Besides, even if they were considered duplicate, putting the same word twice in a title tag is the least of Google's problems to deal with. They could care less. Duplicate issues are when your entire page or lots of your page's content is identical to another page. I wouldn't worry about the situation you describe here.

[Theo-NL]

I'd say Google isn't seeing this as a partly duplicate title. Especially considering both words contain no spaces (and even if it would, I'd doubt Google would see it as duplicate if both versions had significant search volume individually).

I must add though that I can't recall any hard evidence stating either way, but I suppose others that reply can.