very similar title tags for different pages - problematic?

aussiejack · Feb 4, 2015

I have a site which promotes a product in different cities. Lets say refrigerators. So I have the same product portfolio for all cities. Each city has its own landing page.

Can I use the same title tag and description for all cities and just change the city? For example

New York
Title: Best Refrigerators New York | domainname.com
description: Visit our site to find a wide variety of different refrigerators in New York. The summer can come.

Boston
Title: Best Refrigerators Boston | domainname.com
description: Visit our site to find a wide variety of different refrigerators in Boston. The summer can come.

etc

Of course I dont do that with the body text. The body text will be truly unique for all cities.

Can I do this without google moaning?

jamesjk1 · Feb 4, 2015

You should be OK. Don't get me wrong, you can get penalized for dupe meta tags and content, but I think there is enough difference there - it's clear you are targeting different areas for the same product, but it's going to sound similar no matter how you word it. In future, perhaps include a few different words and change the syntax while still conveying the same meaning, just to mix things up a bit.

tony_d · Feb 4, 2015

I have similar setup across multiple niches - I vary the description much more than in your example...

Title: Best refrigerators Boston
Desc: Visit our site to find a wide variety of different refrigerators in Boston. The summer can come.

Title: Best refrigerators New York
Desc: The widest variety of refrigerators in New York - hundreds of colors, sizes, and styles. Hurry - summer is coming!

Etc etc for subsequent pages.

Tayscrim · Feb 4, 2015

Hmm I have a couple websites where I use for example Car rentals New York, Car rentals, Car rental service New York I haven't run into any issues even though in almost all my pages I have the word Car Rentals.

Angrybirds78 · Feb 4, 2015

Yes, once you have changed the city, its no longer identical but you may still face similarity issues.

aussiejack · Feb 4, 2015

thanks guys. I will work to make the titles a bit more different + I will bringt much more variation to the description to be on the safe side

SEO Power · Feb 4, 2015

aussiejack said:
I have a site which promotes a product in different cities. Lets say refrigerators. So I have the same product portfolio for all cities. Each city has its own landing page.

Can I use the same title tag and description for all cities and just change the city? For example

New York
Title: Best Refrigerators New York | domainname.com
description: Visit our site to find a wide variety of different refrigerators in New York. The summer can come.

Boston
Title: Best Refrigerators Boston | domainname.com
description: Visit our site to find a wide variety of different refrigerators in Boston. The summer can come.

etc

Of course I dont do that with the body text. The body text will be truly unique for all cities.

Can I do this without google moaning?

This could cause keyword cannibalisation, so don't be shocked when you find out that the Boston page is ranking for the New York keyword.

aussiejack said:
thanks guys. I will work to make the titles a bit more different + I will bringt much more variation to the description to be on the safe side

Do this and the potential problem I referred to in my post above would be completely abated.

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