Q and A: Do we need unique titles on each page?

Dear Kalena...

Its me again in Koh Samui.

I have been reading your site again with much interest and used the Sitemap Generator which, for me, threw up some odd results. The "Title" of our pages is:

"Ko Samui Properties:Ko Samui Properties Real Estate Houses Land"

and the site map seems to pick up just the "Title" of the web pages.

The photographs of the properties are in folders indexed by our reference numbers eg AB 495 and show as "Un title page" and the photographs are linked to the individual property web page.

The site map does not seem to recognise individual web pages relating to the individual properties except by the standard header which is the same for each page.

If this is what the Search Engine is seeing, then I presume it is not adequate but is this really a problem, or should we look at changing the Title on each web page?

Many thanks for your assistance.

Harry

Kalena's Answer:

Hi Harry

The Sitemap Generator is simply creating a list of all the pages on your site and it is naming them using the content of your Title Attribute on each page. So any pages that have duplicate titles, will show up as the same page name multiple times but with different links.

Same goes for your photographs pages. You are seeing "Un title page" for these pages because that is the content you have specified in the Title Attribute in the HTML on those pages.

You should always create unique Title Attributes and META Tags for each and every page of your site. The content of the tags should reflect the unique content of each page e.g. Koh Samui houses, Koh Samui land etc.

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