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Wordpress widget question

by marky12345
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Hello People

Thanks for helping me out with my previous question on wordpress but now I have another one.

The titles of any widget you add to your sidebars in wordpress automatically becomes h3, because of this I have only been using h1 and h2 in my posts and pages.

* edit = is there anything wrong just using h1 and h2 on a page? sometimes there would be maybe 4-7 h2 titles on a page, is this bad SEO?

First question: Is do you think having fairly irelevent titles in h3 such as 'recent comments' could confuse the spider and make the site not as SEO friednly as it could be?

Second question: Is there a way to change this?

You help and knowledge would be appricated as im sure many of you veterens will be/have used wordpress and come across this problem, how did you get round, didny you get roudn it?
#question #widget #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Samuel Baker
    I personally RARELY put titles onto my widgets ;/ can anyone shed some light if this is bad practice or not? Cheers.

    Thanks for bringing this up @Marky.
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  • Profile picture of the author marky12345
    Originally Posted by khay View Post

    Whichever, it's going to be of negligible benefit.
    Is this at me? If so your saying it will not matter whether they are h3 and im only using h1 and h2?
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  • Profile picture of the author Wechito
    I personally think it is better to just use 1 H1 header in your posts. That way you are telling the spider what is the most relevant content.
    Then use subheaders (as many as you need) in the rest of the post.
    For the sidebar, you better don't use H1 or subheaders. They can make the robot think it is relevant content, when it is not.
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    • Profile picture of the author marky12345
      Originally Posted by Wechito View Post

      I personally think it is better to just use 1 H1 header in your posts. That way you are telling the spider what is the most relevant content.
      Then use subheaders (as many as you need) in the rest of the post.
      For the sidebar, you better don't use H1 or subheaders. They can make the robot think it is relevant content, when it is not.
      Thats what im thinking!

      I look at other websites code often, mostly top ranking seo companies and ive been looknig at one whos using wordpress and their titles are using this code = <p> , how can I change this for the titles of widgets?
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  • Profile picture of the author marky12345
    Does nobody know what I can do to change this? I have been informed that the <p > is not what im looking for to change this, so what is?
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