One Title Per Page, Rather Than One Title For the Site

Every page on your website carries its own title and its own description, set per page rather than once for the whole site. Those two fields are what a search engine shows when your page comes up, so they are the first thing most people ever read about you.

Why identical titles across a site cost you

If every page carries the same title, a results page listing three of your pages shows the same line three times. A person scanning it cannot tell which one answers their question, so they pick none of them.

It also removes the strongest signal you have about what each page is for. Google builds the extra links that sometimes appear under a result from a site whose pages are clearly distinguished. A site where every label is identical gives it nothing to build from.

The practical version: your reel page should say reel, your credits page should say credits, and both should say your name.

What is generated and what is worth writing

Every page gets a sensible title and description automatically, built from the page and your own details. That is a floor. It guarantees nothing on your site goes out blank or duplicated.

A generated description can say who you are. It cannot say what makes this particular page worth opening. That is the part only you can write, and it takes ten minutes for the three or four pages that actually get found: your home page, your reel, your credits, and your contact page.

The fields are under per-page SEO titles and descriptions. Write for a person deciding whether to click, not for a machine, because the machine is choosing on behalf of the person.

What supports it

Canonical URLs stop your own pages competing with each other, stable page addresses mean a result keeps working after you rearrange your menu, and your sitemap tells search engines the pages exist at all.

The wider case is in SEO for actor websites and making your site easy to find.

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Tomasz Mieczkowski

About Tomasz Mieczkowski

Tomasz Mieczkowski is the co-founder of IADB.com and all of the related websites for film and tv industry professionals.

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