Similar page titles but not quite duplicate

[Hughescov]

Howdy Mozzers,

I have a problem with the way Google now tries not to show more than one search result per site on the first page. As in it is a lot harder to be ranked number 1 - 10 twice with different pages.

Some of my pages have similar yet different page titles so they use the same first two keywords and then a variable such as '(keyword) (keyword) installations' '(keyword) (keyword) surveys'. Then when I search for '(keyword) (keyword)' they all appear at the start of page two with only ever one of them moving onto the end of page one.

Now, it could just be that they are not quite optimised for page 1 but I think it would be more holding back of pages so they don't flood page 1.

Any help on this? And also is there a problem with having similar page titles for pages?

Cheers

[MikeRoberts]

Similar page titles aren't the end of the world but its always good to diversify. If you have Google Analytics set up for your site, maybe you could take a look at what terms those other pages could be ranking well for where you aren't already page one and then try optimizing for those terms. When Google made those changes to domain diversity in the SERPs it made it a bit harder to appear two or more times on the same page 1 but that doesn't mean you can't try to appear on more page 1s instead.