Titles and Descriptions - Useless or Valuable?

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Originally Posted by Simon

Halfdeck ~ Thanks for joining in!
Yes, that "identical descriptions" is a problem we had with a site that got rejected for some dmoz listings. But we're actually seeing Google do the "similar pages" thing now on some of our HFS pages, with the similar pages being ones with other affiliate codes in the url (it has the same description since it really is the same page).

Duplicate pages do seem to have certain good points in the rankings though. Seems like a page with 100 "similar pages" ends up ranking a little better than a page with only 50. Just my own observation with similar galleries showing up on SEs.

Originally Posted by Simon

...we're trying to do a good job providing good titles and descriptions on those. None of that "Blonds Fucked Hear - you now sea fuck her good long hard time."
Simon

Typos can be a good thing to throw in sometimes, since most of the surfing population can't seem to spell without a running a spell checker. Just look at all the "typo" domains.