H1 tag question

by n00b

Posted: 14 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Is it a big deal if your site is showing 3 h1 tags on a page? I'm using the Headway theme, and I'm not understanding how they designate what's going to be an h1 tag and it's driving me nuts that everything gets an h1 tag. I don't know how to change it and I'm not that techie, I just go to websitegrader.com and get a report for my site and it shows 3 h1 tags, 1 is the title, the next one is apparently "..." (have no idea what's up with that), and then the 3rd is the headline.

Does it really matter that I have 3 h1 tags and no h2, etc. or is this going to be a problem for google?

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DarkLour 14 years ago

Hello, I do SEO, website & WordPress theme design, and have been for last 10 years, I will say these days you probably will not get banged for it to bad, but optimally you would truly only want one H1 tag per page. As well as it SEO wise with the weight H1 tags carry it could throw off your keyword weight to search engines as they see "whatever" in your keywords and now you have 3 H1 tags saying something else. if you can get it fixed maby better you do SEO wise, but i dont think its gonna kill you. If you need any help feel free to PM me
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Nickolie0990 14 years ago

The h1 tag is not the most important on page element as far as I know. But the spider mite think that you are over optimized your page and it could hurt your ranking. Here is a short video from Matt Cutts about H1 Tags:

YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

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Grapho 14 years ago

I don't think it is going to be a problem (Google knows there are tons of clean webmasters that can't differentiate between h1 and div and spray tags around without clue) but it would not give you advantages.

So if it is good for your content structure - say, you have three different stories use 3 h1. Otherwise just use h1 as main heading and h2...h6 for subheadings.
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- Scott Henderson 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Grapho
  
  (Google knows there are tons of clean webmasters that can't differentiate between h1 and div and spray tags around without clue)
  
  I don't think Google has that built into the algorithms and it is perhaps absurd to state such. Just my opinion.:rolleyes:
  
  It is good practice to have one h1 tag per page, relevent to the pages content, try to keep them different throughout your site, if you feel you need more than one h1 tag then move on to h2 again relevent to page content. Properly worded h1 and h2 tags with good relevent page content etc will make a difference. It is okay to have more than one h1 tag, but just don't over do it.
  
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n00b 14 years ago

Thanks for all the replies guys!

I actually figured out what I needed to do to get it down to one H1 tag per page. It was so irritating that I decided I didn't care if Google cared or not, because I did
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Snap 14 years ago

All I believe is content should be for users and search engines if the page needs 3 H1's go for it.
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