"Duplicate Page Title" Problem - Please Help

[MighteeObvious]

Hello,

My website is categorized into 2 main categories.

Sci/Tech (Has 4 sub-categories)

Gadgets(Has 2 sub-categories)

The Crawl diagnostic tool shows "Duplicate Page Title" error on Gadget's sub-categories while there's no error on the Sci/Tech.

I don't really know how to get rid of these errors. Anyone has a solution to this?

[AhmadS]

Take a look at your meta descriptions.  Maybe you need to re-write them so that each is unique.  As I understand it, the meta descriptions don't matter that much with regard to seo rankings but they do matter in terms of uniquely describing your product or service.  Think about it. How can two "different" items logically have the same description.

[Igal_Zeifman]

Hi

1st of all (to address previous comment) Meta description is not an SEO factor.

"Even though we sometimes use the description meta tag for the snippets we show, we still don't use the description meta tag in our ranking."
Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Meta titles however are a major factor and duplicate meta titles might point to Canonicalization issue.

To solve, first investigate (scrape SERP or use Webmaster Tools to identify error source and see if you are dealing with duplicated Titles or Duplicated Content - > similar pages with the same Titles/Content that appear under different URLs)

If Duplicated Titles only, find a way to optimize all Tags on site (a must)

If Duplicated Content, use rel=canonical to solve your issue: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

GL

[eseyo]

Currently the MozBar tool is showing errors and displaying duplicate description tags IF you are using Twittercard Metadata on your site and perhaps even Facebook Opengraph.

Both of these "alternative" descriptions look similar from a code point of view, and I have had it confirmed to me from Moz staff that it's a bug and they are looking to have this fixed in the next release of the plugin.

[SanketPatel]

Hello,

Please share your both pages link with us so it will become more easy for us to diagnosis your issue.  If you have same content but different URL then by  using Webmaster Tool's URL parameters like IDs, =, ? you can detect this error.  If your sub categories  and  Products are different then you have to set unique titles for every pages.

[SanketPatel]

hi

Thanks for giving me response, I have analyzed your URL and it is possible in most

eCommerce site that Google find duplicate page title error in subcategory pages.

Google consider these both URL same

(http://www.gizmocrazed.com/category/android/)(http://www.gizmocrazed.com/category/gadgets/android/)

That’s why it places the error but no need to worry about this error

because i found canonical code in your source code.

So no need to worry it is minor error and it does not affect in ranking.