: Stopping duplicate H1 and title from dynamic content I have a web site where there are lots of dynamically (database driven) created pages. These pages are basically used to show uploaded images

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I'm going to answer this from an SEO perspective since the comments on your question do a good job of addressing the other issues at hand.

Because the pages on your site will have very little content (I am assuming you are showing an image and possibly a description of it) if your pages have the same <title> and <h1> tags they will be very similar to each and may run into duplicate content issues. Naturally you want to avoid this.

My recommendation is to add as much content to those pages as possible to help them differentiate themselves. Make sure you add things like the name of the person who uploaded it, the date it was uploaded, where the picture was taken, etc. If you don't have descriptions for those images you should consider allowing users to add one. I would also recommend allowing comments for each picture as that will help generate unique content for each page.

I would also recommend differentiating the <title> and <h1> tags if at all possible. Adding the ID isn't necessarily a bad thing but you might be able to do it better. Maybe append the name of the user who submitted it to them. Like this:

"View from the sea" by Ben Dover


If that doesn't help then maybe adding the date submitted to the <title>, and maybe the <h1>, might be in order. Place them after the title of the picture as they are less important then the title of the photo.

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