Title and H1 Header Exact Duplicates

[adder]

Hi guys,

I found this old topic of 2003:
[webmasterworld.com...]

It discusses whether it is good or bad to have the page Title and H1 exactly duplicated. I have to admit that I am using the same phrase in my Titles and Headers.

The result? Not bad and not good. I don't feel I've been punished by Google but I also fail to rank within the top10 for my keywords with some exceptions (many of my pages are Top20 though). Initially I reckoned this was because my projects were all brand new...

I am about to rewrite some of the headers to see what happens.

Have you any up to date observations on this issue?

[zuko105]

Depends on how competitive your keywords are, how much page rank (site trust, site age, links to your site, etc ) you have and how much content you have supporting those page titles.

If I were a web standards quality officer (nazi), I think hard targeting page titles and h1 exactly matching is a good thing as this is what this html document is about as far as the internet is concerned.