How Do I deal with duplicate page titles for pages on eCommerce site

[wouldBseoKING]

Hi

We have an ecommerce site selling physical products. There are a few areas where the products run into two pages.

I have used canonical meta tags and  next and prev meta tags too.

Despite this SEOMOZ reports are still displaying these as warnings for duplicate page titles.

An example would be

/brand_name/range/

<link rel="next" href="/brand_name/range/?page=2" />  <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="/band_name/range/"/>

/brand_name/range/?page=2

<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">prev</a>" href="/brand_name/range/" />  <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="/band_name/range/?page=2"/>

Should I be doing something different?

[wouldBseoKING]

I asked the same question to our SEO company and they came up with this answer:

"In regards to your question, Google has explained that using paginated content, i.e. the rel="next" and rel="prev" tags, tells them that the two pages are part of a sequence. Therefore there is no need to have different titles or to noindex page 2. You won't receive any penalty for it."

Which makes more sense to me, and this means that the SEOmoz reports are wrong to be flagging this up as a duplicate title?

[wattssw]

What you want is for Page 2, Page 3, etc. to automatically show up in the page title, making different page titles for each page.

Depending on what CMS and plugins you are using, this may be easy to add. Otherwise, a PHP script could detect what page number and add it to the title automatically.