Duplicate/ <title>element too long issues</title>

[Brian_Dowd]

I have a "duplicate <title>"/"<title> element too long" issue with thousands of pages. In the future I would like to automate these in a way that keeps them from being duplicated AND too long. The solution I came up with was to standardize these monthly posts with a similar, shorter, <title>, but then differentiate by adding the month and the year of the post at the end of each <title>. Hundreds of these come out every week, so it is hard to sit there and come up with a unique <title> every time. With this solution the <title> tags would undoubtedly be short enough, however my primary concern is, would simply adding the month and year at the end of each <title> be enough for Google/Moz to decide it is not a duplicate? How much variation is enough for it not to be deemed a duplicate <title>? </p></title>

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

One different character is enough However, what's the point of having such titles whatsoever? Titles supposed to tell users (in SERPs) what the page is about, and if every result from your domain would say "The same thing +date", how is it useful, and how is gonna benefit your SEO?

I understand that writing unique titles can be time consuming, but isn't any SEO work?

[Brian_Dowd]

Hi Dmitrii,

Appreciate the reply. I didn't really explain the part about the beginning of the title because it wasn't really relevant to my issue, but you are right they should be unique. They won't all be the same, but the date and title makes sure there will be no duplicates.

Thanks again for the answer.