Website and seo for categories and pages

[twiguins]

I have a website with a number of specific locations listed in a directory. The locations are in categories but i also have several pages with the same titles and descriptions. Will this be a problem when it comes to seo

[Chris.Menke]

Those duplicate pages aren't going to rank the way they are but one of them may have the potential to.  Which one that would be might be a  toss up.

If the rest of the content in addition to the meta data on those pages is the same and you don't care about those duplicate pages not ranking, you can rel=canonicalize them to a single page that you do want to rank.  That way you can determine for yourself which will be the one ranking page.

Otherwise, if you want all of them to rank, you would need to unique-ify them all in order to give all of them all an opportunity to rank.

[Mila72772]

very nice and informative article keep up the good work