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Is there any penalty on Google rankings for using two pages with the same title and/or meta-description? If so, what is the penalty?
Both pages are on the same domain. One page URL is example.com/abcd and the other page URL is example.com/uvwxyz. The H1 header for both pages is the same, and both have the same meta-description.
I don’t think Google would punish this.
Think of YouTube (which is owned by Google): The content of the
titleelement follows this schema:[user-contributed video title] - YouTube. Themeta–descriptionconsists of the user-contributed video description.Now, there are probably thousands of videos with the very same title (“My cute cat”) and some of them could even have the same description (“See my cute cat”).
However, if a website consists of many (or even only) pages with same
titleandmeta–description, it gambles away the possibilty for a better ranking. But when all these pages really have different content, it won’t be punished.