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Have you checked Google Webmaster Central to see if there is any information on the domain there? Does your website still show up for other keywords? Does the page that was ranking for 'domain sales' still show when you perform a 'site:www.example.org' query for your domain? Have you recently engaged in any shady or black hat SEO activities that might have caused a penalty for this page? Has the page been ranking top 10 for a long amount of time?
In the example you've presented, I don't see a duplicate title tag. Product name A is different from product name B, which makes title page A different from title page B.
If you want those titles to be even more unique, you could consider sometimes such as:
Title page (A): Product name A | Unique Selling Point for product A with Good Keywords
Title page (B): Product name B | Different Selling Point for Product B with Different Keywords
That depends a lot on what you're trying to achieve with those titles. Are you looking for maximum exposure of the title to the user? Then I'd suggest ~45 characters (which is the maximum number of characters visible in the Safari browser, my personal favorite 'Atomic' shows only 10 characters in the tabbed interface). If you're trying to have the page ranked in the iPhone version of Google, I'd advice the regularly advised title tag length of no more than 65 characters as Google appears to have the same cut-off on mobile and desktop browsers. Or perhaps there is another goal you're trying to achieve?
I'd say you can safely put this issue aside. As you've mentioned yourself, xml files don't need title tags, and I presume you aren't trying to have this page rank in the SERPS in the first place anyway. Perhaps one of the SEOmoz fellows can look into this?
There doesn't seem to be much information on this topic. This is what Google has to say about it "Determined algorithmically, these highlighted brand names may help you find what you're looking for faster, and make your research and shopping experience all the more enjoyable."
Some discussion on the subject:
You're ranking a solid 2nd place for me when I'm searching on Google.com from Holland! This website does indeed look well optimized both on-page and off-page. One clear point that your domain is lacking on compared to the #1 and #3 here (springhomes.com and bestspringhomes.com) is domain age. Whilst your domain appears to be registered in 2008, theirs seem to be registered in 1997(!) and 2006 respectively.
Furthermore (as you might already know, but I'll point it out anyway) ranking locally for users from the same region requires extra (and sometimes different) SEO techniques. More information on this subject can be found here: http://www.localseoguide.com/ and even in a Whiteboard friday by Rand: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-basics-of-local-seo-whiteboard-friday
Good luck!
Hey tgraham,
Personally I don't see any objections to sending the traffic from the new url to a subfolder on the old domain. Since this page will probably be more relevant to your redirected visitors than your home page, your visitors will have a better user experience this way as well.
Kind regards,
Theo
PS: I presume you're aware of the fact that this way of utilizing the new domain will keep it from ranking in the search engines? By using a 301 redirect only the old domain will rank, not the new one.