Pagination do you still need unique titles?

[jayoliverwright]

Hi Guys,

For pagination, if you have implemented the rel Prev/Next tags correctly, is it fine to have duplicate titles in the series example:

Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses
Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses/2
Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses/3
Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses/4

Some people mention that you should make them unique and add the page number example:

Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses
Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses/2 
Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses/3 
Title Tag: Black Dresses URL: http://www.site.com/blackdresses/4

Keen to hear what you guys thing?

Personally, i think its fine to have duplicate title tags when you have properly implemented rel Prev/Next tags as Googel will see the series as one.

Cheers.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Jay,

I agree that probably it won't really matter if you have implemented the rel next/prev tags. But still I would always make sure that the pages will just have the actual page number added to it so they will be unique. In most cases this is a very easy fix for developers or in some CMS' you can do it yourself. That's why I wouldn't take the risk and make them unique.

Martijn.