Duplicate Page Titles

[DartsDecor]

It seems as though we are being flagged for duplicate page titles when really they are slightly different. Is it better to remove the "dart board" or "dart board backboard" from all the product titles? We were doing this for optimal SEO - to rank for the search of "dart board" - but is it really hurting us?

for example, our product titles are:

Obama dart board backboard, Texas dart board backboard, Oklahoma dart board backboard, etc. Yet they are being flagged as duplicate titles.

[GlobeRunner]

Your site's title tags should exactly reflect the site's content. So, if you have an Obama dart board backboard, and another product is a Texas dart board backboard, then each page would have a unique title. Unless the title tag is exactly duplicate, then you probably don't have an issue. The title tags are similar, but they're not exactly duplicates.

You didn't mention as to where these are being flagged as duplicates, if it's in Moz or in Google Search Console, so it's tough to give you any more specifics.

[lovemozforever]

Make sure there is strong connection between your title tag and content on each page.

Example:
Title tag: Obama dart board backboard
Content has "Obama dart board backboard" as a long tail keyword

Same for other titles. The only reason I see is your content on multiple pages have general keyword "dart board backboard" which is not really a part of title tags, but still make sure your title tag is same as content on each page.

Let me know who is flagging you.

[MattRoney]

Hi Emily!

I hope you don't mind, but I glanced over the crawl report in your Moz Pro campaign to get a better sense of this (we admins get to cheat). I'm seeing the duplicate title warning, but I think you may be mistaken as to which groups of URLs are being flagged.

Are you comfortable if I share the URLs here, or would you like me to PM you?