Am I cannabalizing my title tags or is there a better way?
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I've read some info about title tags and meta, and I'm getting a little confused. If there is a previous discussion that I've missed, please redirect me. thank you.
So I have a locksmith and one of his pages is on Auto Locksmith.
For every car, I have a page. i.e Acura, Audi, BMW etc.
Here is my title tag:
- Acura Car Keys| Ignition Switch Repair| Key Duplication
- BMW Car Keys| Ignition Switch Repair| Key Duplication
- Same for the rest of the different car models on the site.
I previously asked a question on here about "What is Cannibalization", and after reading the answer, as well as a full article about it, I think I may be potentially cannibalizing my site with these title tags, though my SEO Moz has not indicated that I am.
Should my title tags be instead...
Acura car keys| Acura Ignition Switch Repair| Acura Key Duplication for each vehicle page?
Additionally, all the Meta Descriptions on each vehicle page read the same as well. Is this correct?
We duplicate Acura car keys, repair ignition switches, extract broken keys, replace remotes, reprogram transponder keys and provide emergency locksmith srvc.
Lastly, this is for a city, yet I have not placed the city modifier in my tags nor content. Somehow it knows what city I'm in because some of my pages are ranking on Page 1, however other pages are ranking like #188, #257...So I'm just confused.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Jaye
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Thanks Mark!! That helps a lot!!
At least I'm on my way to better optimization.
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Jay-
Title tags need to be concise but need to do a good job of defining what the page is about. The best title tag in your example is:
Acura car keys | Acura Ignition Switch Repair | Acura Key Duplication Make sure there is a pace after the last word in each kewyrod.
To localize and geo-target the same listing you could use Dallas acura car keys / dallas acura ignition switch repis.....or Acura car keys in dallas / Acura ignition switch in Dallas........
Localizing and geo-targeting the title makes sense and will help you in local results.
The meta tage description should be more huiman readbale and should add some additional detail. make sure mutliple pages are not the same exact meta descritpion with the exception of the car type. Mix them up in content but make them applicable to the subject.
For example: "We are the best locksmith in Dallas. We provide Car keys, Ignition switch repair and key duplication for all acura makes and models in the dallas area."
This is Googles webmaster tools description of what you should do with the meta tag:
The description attribute within the tag is a good way to provide a concise, human-readable summary of each page’s content. Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content. Accurate meta descriptions can help improve your clickthrough; here are some guidelines for properly using the meta description.
The url is http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624
Dont worry about cannibalizing if you follow these rules.You will be in good shape.
Good luck.
Mark
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