Title Tags for Index Pages

[felt]

What tactics do you use to change the title tags of your index page so they're not all the same? For example, if you have an index page that has 100 pages, each with the same title, what tactics do you use to give each page a unique title and how important is it?

[CleverPhD]

If they are paginated and you are showing say 100 pages of blog posts, I would use rel next prev to connect one page to the other and show the relationship then I would use the same title on all of them, but on pages 2 through N, I add the page number to the title and the description.

So if your title is "Worlds Greatest Widget Posts" and description is "These are the best posts on widgets on our site." you would use that for the main index page.

Then Page 2 title would be "Page 2 of Worlds Greatest Widget Posts" and description is "This is page 2 of the best posts on widgets on our site."

You get the idea.  I use this very effectively to tie them together but make them unique.  Another pointer, if you use Printer Friendly versions of pages, you can add "PF" or "Printer Friendly" in the title and descriptions of those and then you can also use the canonical link to canonical the PF version to the actual version.