Help with duplicate title tags.

[askshopper]

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?.

[askshopper]

The php code is :

<title><?php echo (@$pageTitle?$pageTitle.' - ':''). 'Trade prices,Next Day Delivery,Bulk Discount'; ?></title>

[cogbox]

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.

[askshopper]

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 :-).