identical titles

[toddb]

I was reading some stuff form Lycos and they say that spiders do not like pages with identical titles. I have soem php pages with a tmplate and I had changed the title to a static one. Is this a no-no? Does google care if titles are identical? Thanks.

[korkus2000]

You need to use a title to be descriptive and unique. If you use the same title you will definitely not fair well in the engines. Title has a lot of weight in ranking and you are only targeting one phrase throughout the site.

[heini]

Yep, and that holds true for all engines.
You won't get panlised or anything for identical titles, but it just doesn't make much sense.

[toddb]

I guess i was optimising the main page and pushing out without some targeted but some not so targeted. I have changed all the titles.