Help with duplicate title tags.
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Hi
Just going through Seomoz crawl diagnostics for one of my clients sites & see that the title tags for over 2,000 pages are the same due to the way there site software generates the titles using php, examples :
**home page** = <title>Home - Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discounttitle> other page = <title>A0 Frames - Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discounttitle> So as you can see the page titles have the page name given to the beginning of the title which is fine as they have the keyword, then the text : Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount Now if i take out the text : Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount the home page is going to have just the word Home which is rubbish & the other pages will have the keyword which is better but not great, just wondered if any one has a better solution?.
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Yes thank you I think far better to have unique titles, better than duplicates even though this method a lot are going to be very short but again avoids titles that are to long :-).
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Something along the lines of
if (($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/')||($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/index.php')) {
echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle.' - ':''). 'Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount';
} else {
echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle:'');
}
So, if it is the homepage you show the whole thing, if not, show the sort version.
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The php code is :
<title><?php echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle.' - ':''). 'Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount'; ?></title>
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