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Hello fellows

I working on a site that have duplicate pages' titles tags, the case is the following: there is a category page that is split in couple pages via pagination (1,2,3 ....) all these pages have the same title tag

for example: looking at this page for example, it has a pagination at the bottom, all the pages in the pagination (let's say page 5 for example) have the same title tag for the rest (including the first page).

How should I deal with this case? should I simply add to the title tag its corresponding page number? e.g, full interviews - page 1? or I should I use canonical tag? I'm really confused.

Your help is really appreciated.

Thanks Paul for your comprehensive answer, I totally agrees with what you have said, I do believe now I have a good reason to ask the upper management to take that decision.

Thanks again for you answer

Thanks Paul for your reply, I agree totally with what you have said, the site's code is bulls*** at best :), unfortunately editing it is not an option for now due to different factors, what matters for us the most for now is the ranking, does that mess in the code effect the site's ranking? as I showed in SERP, the title shows as it should be, my humble knowledge suggests that it should be ok SEO-wise, what do you think?

Your help is really appreciated

Hello all

I was looking at the crawling report for my project, I have noticed that there are so many duplicate titles in the "Duplicate Page Title" report, I checked the title tag for one of the titles (for this page) manually (in the page code), and it was showing like this:

<title></span><span>Interviews | TechSparks</span><span></title>

where it's showing in the "Duplicate Page Title" report like this:

Interviews | TechSparksEasyRotator Preview

Hovering over the tab in the browser shows the title as I mentioned first, and searching Google for this page shows the title like the first one I mentioned too.

Do you any clue why that is happening?

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Can't emphasize how useful your answer is, that will solve the problem for us, thank you very very much