Audit rules
Duplicate Title
Several indexable pages of the crawl share the same title, so search results cannot tell them apart. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has warning severity and is left out of the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.
site.duplicate_titleWarning01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
site.duplicate_title- Group
- Site (Crawl)
- Severity of a failure
- Warning
- Counts in the score
- No, the site rules of a crawl are left out of the score
- Required for a score
- No
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- Two or more audited, indexable pages have the same title (compared without case and extra spaces) → fail on each of them
- Exceptions
- Pages that are not indexable, redirects and pages the crawl skipped are not compared
Sources
- Sources
- Influencing your title links in search results (Google Search Central, S10)
02 — Site (Crawl)
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Duplicate Meta Descriptionsite.duplicate_meta_description
- Internal Link to an Error Pagesite.broken_internal_link
- Internal Link Through a Redirectsite.redirect_internal_link
- Invalid Sitemapsite.sitemap_invalid
- Sitemap URL Not Indexablesite.sitemap_url_not_indexable
- Hreflang Without Return Linksite.hreflang_not_reciprocal
- Orphan Pagesite.orphan_page
- Deep Pagesite.click_depth