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Hi every one I have duplicate title of my 15 page.Is it a issue or not?How Google see this?

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For : 15 pages sharing the same title is fixable with a short audit and a clear remediation plan. First, inventory and group the pages so you know whether they are (a) true duplicates of content, (b) similar templated pages (category listings, filtered results), or (c) distinct content that accidentally got the same title. Prioritize pages that already get traffic or conversions; fix those first.

Quick duplicate-title finder (works with a list of URLs saved in urls.txt):

# requires: requests, beautifulsoup4
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from collections import defaultdict

titles = defaultdict(list)
for url in open('urls.txt'):
    url = url.strip()
    r = requests.get(url, timeout=10, headers={'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0'})
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
    t = (soup.title.string or '').strip()
    titles[t].append(url)

for title, urls in titles.items():
    if len(urls) > 1:
        print(title, len(urls))
        for u in urls:
            print('  ', u)

Fix strategies by category:

  • Distinct pages with same title: create unique, page-specific titles (include product name, article headline, or category + modifier). Use a consistent template (for example: Post Title | Section | SiteName) so changes scale.
  • Templated/listing pages (pagination, filters): either make titles reflect the filters/page number, or canonicalize/filter to the main view. If pages are intentionally duplicate (printer view, sort variants), canonicalize or set noindex on the variants.
  • Exact duplicate content across URLs: consolidate with 301 redirects or a canonical link to the chosen URL.

For CMS sites (WordPress, etc.), use the theme/template variables or an SEO plugin to auto-generate correct titles; for bulk database fixes, run targeted SQL updates but always backup first.

Monitor results after changes (re-crawl important pages, watch impressions/CTR). Small, descriptive titles that match page content reduce confusion and lower the chance Google will rewrite them. This expands on earlier replies from , , and with concrete steps to find, categorize, and fix duplicate titles.

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Member Avatar for articlewriter1

Although it is no big deal you are probably better off having a unique and different title with the same keyword or phrase. Although there is NO duplicate content penalty, Google simply indexes the first content the find and disregard the rest. So you are better off having 15 different ones than ONE repeated 15 times.

Member Avatar for jay 11

Agreed - it can be confusing for both users and search engines alike if each page has the same title.

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

Since title tag is the most important factor of on-page optimization, having unique and relevant title for every page would be a necessary, IMO. :)

Thanks,

Member Avatar for ipmekongtours

Title of your post is considered first, then to the content, if multiple pages with a headline, only one page view, just like you disguise it, it could be considered fraud.

Member Avatar for bbriniotis

Hi every one I have duplicate title of my 15 page.Is it a issue or not?How Google see this?

It's a serious issue. Duplicate titles won't help you much with search engines. If you check the google webmaster tool platform you will see that you will get it as an error.

Make sure you change them and add some revelant title.

Member Avatar for cantthink

Although it is no big deal you are probably better off having a unique and different title with the same keyword or phrase. Although there is NO duplicate content penalty, Google simply indexes the first content the find and disregard the rest. So you are better off having 15 different ones than ONE repeated 15 times.

I think this applies to content. Google indexes the first page they find and then discounts all the other pages when they find the same content.

I do agree that you should have different titles for your pages, and this is not just to reflect different keywords but to have a title that is closely relevant to your page.

Member Avatar for quicktpgo

Since title tag is the most important factor of on-page optimization, having unique and relevant title for every page would be a necessary, IMO. :)

Thanks,

Agreed. Title is an important issue in on page seo.

You will have to ahve unique ones. Otherwise it can be confusing and not user friendly nor SE friendly.

Member Avatar for infinique

Duplicate Title is big problem. Use Xml-Sitemaps.com to generate your site map. Under Sitemap.html please check if all the Title are the same. You'll get penalized if all title tags are 100% similar.

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