On another site, we're coverting our PDF ebooks to HTML webpages

for easy math, let's say a 10 page PDF will now become a 10 html webpages

we'd like to set our title tags to the the title of the ebook

but by only doing that, all 10 newsly created webpages will share the exact same title tag

and i don't want to do something like "tile | Page bumber" becuase that just looks odd in the results

anybody have any creative ideas?

anybody also care to comment on how important differenetiating title tags in this case is? I looked at how some more popular site handle this and they simply keep the title tags the same. 3 page article here for example: http://weightloss.about.com/od/nutritio … bels_2.htm

Base the title on the first sub title of the pdf in the web page

or

base the title tag on the first line of text on the page.

Append the main title to the individual titles for consistency

I would do the same as northie said use the first sub header on each page + the main title after it maybe.

Its important to have different titles on each page for your seo and viewers to know what that individual page is about. I think this is a good article on page titles and should tell all people need to know http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importanc … ;id=721034

I would probably use a distinct title for each individual webpage, but choosing one where the keywords within the title exist within H tags within the body of the webpage.

I would also make sure that meta description and keyword tags are defined for each unique webpage.

As a rule of thumb I always ensure that my TITLE, H1-6, META KEYWORDS, META DESCRIPTION and BODY content is completely unique for every page on my websites.

This is very time consuming but is very worth-while for search engines like Google.

thanks for the replies guys

@ Rankhiger - i have to do this for thousands of books. Many of which have hundred of pages, so we're looking an impossible amount of work to do manually - i have to find a dynamic forumla

@ North - the title tag of page 1 will be the title of the book (+ author name). But i'm not sure i can use the first few words of proceeding pages as their title tags. For example i have the book 1984 in front of me. With that system we would have:

Page           Title Tag
1                      1984 | George Orwell
2                      were still distinguished. The instrument (the...
3                      live- die live, from habit that became
4                      The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said


let's say page 2 and beyond got indexed like that:

1) would anyone find them since there are no real keyowrds in them?
2) would anyone click on them since they don't seem to make much sense to a human eye?

If your a programmer I would try and write your own algorithm todo the work for you, the logic should be fairly straight-forward.

I would structure each webpage so that when a specific number of paragraphs have been printed on the webpage it then starts a new webpage with the title of the new chapter at the start of the page.  This way the title and H tags would be relevant.

You could also do some sort of keyword analysis picking the keywords which appear the most number of times within the webpage excluding the "stop" words such as "and", "it", "the" etc and placing these within the meta keywords tag.

Also, on the first webpage I would also place an index for the visitor to jump to a specific page within the book

Page 1
Links to: Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

Instead of Page 1 linking to 2 linking to 3 linking to 4 and so forth.  This would create the link structure on many different levels which I don't think would be advisable.

You'd want the search engines to index these books to contribute towards your SEO, is this correct?

From the titles you've suggested I don't think many people would click on them as there is no defined structure which is consistent, but thats just my point-of-view.

something you could try (running of from rankhighers thoughts) is if your ebooks all use the h1, h2 tags etc you could set a database query to set the text within the h1 tag as your page title if you know what I mean?

This should work with anything as long as the sub headers or header have some sort of tag that the main text dont use.

Can the issue be broken down into 1 chapter per webpage?

Then the title tags can be the chapter names

Northie wrote:

Can the issue be broken down into 1 chapter per webpage?

Then the title tags can be the chapter names

I think this makes the most sense.

Northie wrote:

Can the issue be broken down into 1 chapter per webpage?

Then the title tags can be the chapter names

Unfortunately it can't for a few reasons unfortunately (1. chapter lenght + 2. the way the system converts from PDF)

Appriciate the help and suggestions so far guys! Thanks