Software for duplicate title detection? Google says its not so good.

[nippi]

I've got a site with roughly 20,000 pages, and I know a heap of duplciate titles have creapt in.

Trouble is, finding them.

Does anyone know of software that can help?

[MThiessen]

what generated that many pages? If it is a database template driven you could try adding a variable in the title tag.

[nippi]

database driven, problem is there are duplicates in the data

that's what i'm trying to find, wihtout having to write a script, figured a duplcaite title checker would do it for me.

[MThiessen]

don't think a dup title checker would fix it if the pages auto generate from a template, your changes would just get re-wrote. You need to figure out how your template works. I use Gossamer Links for a directory that I have, and there are variables you can put in the title tag that will make it unique.

You gotta be real careful though, cause using the wrong variable might make the pages sound stupid. Hard to explain, every template/database site is different, but normaly there is "some variable" that will work when worded correctly.

Like pages in a widget directory, if you had:
<title> <subcatname> widgets </title>

They would all vary sub dir to sub dir. If each page had a unique item you could have:
<title> <unique item name> </title>

That one would make all the titles different.

I have had much better web success on sites that were not auto generated, though my directory is PR7 and doing well, it's not my flagship by any means. My best sites are good ole sweat and blood, write it all, original content SEO page by page. Auto sites are hard to make work.

[nippi]

my problem is that much of the database, is user generated, by mutiple users.

eg, say my site is about electricans

5 electricians may have as their miniweb title.

electrican New York.

I need to see how many listings I have in the directory, where users have selected the same title for their listing,

I CAN right a script to do so, but figured there must be software that analyses a site, that will index it, and give me a report on duplciate titels

[MThiessen]

If you are using mysql there are ways to check for identical entries to the same field.

Check your database software support for ways of doing a line by line replace and or check, of dups.

[nippi]

MThiessen

agreed this is best way, programmer is off for a week and had hoped for anotehr solution.

have found a quick hack, and is now sorted.