How to avoid duplicate title tags?

[Masbro]

I've got roughly 1200 location pages for a travel client. Since the business does the same thing at every location, the title tags and descriptions are almost identical except for the location name. I know Google likes tags and meta descriptions to be unique, but how many different ways can I write the same title in a 55 character limit? For example, here's how the titles look:

Things to do in San Jose, CA | Company Name
Things to do in Dallas, TX | Company Name
Things to do in Albuquerque, NM | Company Name

**My question: Are 1200 title tags structured this way unique enough for Google? **

I have got the same problem with the meta descriptions, but I can vary those a bit more because i have more characters to work with.

Thanks for your input,
Dino

[anthonydnelson]

The title tags in this example are unique and are fine.

The bigger concern would be if those pages all have unique, valuable and not-thin content as opposed to being created for ranking a variety of keywords.

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Dino!

Agree with Anthony that those are unique and that the main concern here is to be certain that your content on those pages is unique. Definitely a challenge with 1200 pages, but fortunately, there should be totally unique things to do in each of those cities, so it's quite possible to manage this.

[Masbro]

Thanks Anthony and Miriam, this site doesn't really have a lot of unique textual content on the pages. It's sort of a portal site where consumers can download travel brochures in each city. I thought Googlebots might read the pages as duplicate because the pages are mostly images and links. There's a one or two sentence description for each page (brochure) as well as a physical address (NAP), but that's about it for text.

My thought was that since it's all images and links, Google would have very little to crawl and therefore consider all the pages as duplicates, but the Moz crawl is not considering them duplicate pages from what I can tell. Do you think that since the pages are light on textual content that a duplicate content issue could pose a problem?