Titles, keywords - choices narrow - But content is unique

How to customize titles/keywords on newspaper pages categorized by years?

[Lifesnadir]

One site of mine is devoted to old newspapers (genealogy content). One section of the website is in a YEARS folder. UNIQUE titles and keywords is difficult on these -- and I probably have 75 to 100 pages. CONTENT *is* unique on each page (all have different articles, names, month/day/year dates... etc).

Only 1 or 2 of the 75 to 100 pages get into Google at all. I wonder if Google sees it as Dupes based on the titles or descriptions?

I'm re-doing titles, but there's only so many ways to mix together a YEAR+newspaper -- Like a title "1824 Newspaper Articles from..." Or "Newspaper articles of 1825 from (city/county/state)" Or "City/County/State 1826 newspapers..."

Does ANYONE have any other ideas? After 25-50 pages (half-way through), I run out of ideas -- AND I will continually add additional different years on separate pages, so this issue won't be going away for me.

In the content, there could be anywhere from just a few surnames, to dozens of surnames (you know, John SMITH, Michael HOBBS, Mary HOLEB, Mrs. Abigail ROADS, etc). Would including *some* Surnames in the keywords, specific to each page, help in getting Google to index more pages?

Are pages in Google based more on title, keywords, or content? (or a mixture of all 3?) Which one should I devote my energy to first?

How do companies that sell blue, green, red, purple, navy blue, hunter green (etc) "DoDads" avoid making page titles and keywords that are too similar from page to page? Must be a nightmare!

Judy

[davethekidca]

I think I understand what your getting at so i'll give it my best. What ever a page may be about it need to have a keyword/keyphrase. Now the title may be a date but that will not get anywhere on google. Perhaps as a news paper has headlines,.....ex.

Boy Hurt In Fall.
Courtesy: New York Times <-- Just an example.

The date is January 18 1893.

Make the page title reflect all of this.

So fisrt consider your target keywords and then this is what I would do.

Boy Hurt In Fall - January 18 1893.

And maybe even through in the ny time bit, unless perhaps that get you in trouble with copyright?

Now if you use that example as the title, Make an h1 tag to match:

<title>Boy Hurt In Fall - January 18 1893.</title>
<h1>Boy Hurt In Fall - January 18 1893.</h1>

Hope this helps, its just a start of what I would do for every single page.