What Is A H1 Tag?

16 years ago

This is your heading tag in html

If you were to write an article or blog post, the title would be inside the <h1> tags. Not to be confused with page title which is the title in the top left hand corner of the html page.

If you were to write an article on, for example, Psychic Dogs you'll put the blog post title in <h1> tags like this:

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<h1>The Rise In Psychic Dogs Means You're Out Of Job Mr. Fry</h1>

It is important for SEO reasons you have your main keywords in your <h1> tags.

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SteveJohnson

16 years ago

Here's a little more in-depth explanation: HTML Headings

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wschuler

16 years ago

Originally Posted by sportsfan54

I was doing some keyword analysis on Traffic Travis and one of the stat columns is labeled H1 Tag.

What exactly is an H1 tag?

I did a search on Google but some of the definitions were kinda confusing. I thought someone here can simplify it it for me.

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It's the HTML tag that designates the text between the tags as the "heading" or "Headline" of the page/article you are creating. The number next to the 'H' signifies how large your heading is, H1 being the largest (font) size.

This is a really simplified explanation.... might want to read up HTML coding for a more detailed description.

Bill

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sportsfan54 16 years ago

So say I'm writing a post on wp and where I type in the title for the post I also type in the <h1> code?

For example I would type... <h1>My Title</h1>
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- RhondaG 16 years ago
  
  Sportsfan, if you are using WP the title of the page will be done for you by wp, but the headline, down where you are going to put your article will need a H1 tag. Over on the left side of the dashboard there will be a box with different formats, like paragraph, h1, h2, etc. Just highlight your headline and hit which size of type you want.
  
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  sportsfan54 16 years ago
  
  Ahhh I see now. Thanks, makes sense now
  
  When I was selecting the different headings I find that the h1 ext is way to big for me. Do I need to use the H1 or can I use H2 or H3 instead?
  
  Does it matter to Google?
  
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  Vanfenix 16 years ago
  
  Google will auto-format - You can use whatever you like.
  
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  terrelsmith13 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Vanfenix
  
  Google will auto-format - You can use whatever you like.
  
  How about other search engines? Do they also auto-format them?
  
  As far as I know, there are only six (6) header tags used to define a heading that we can attach to our HTML documents. <h1> being the main heading, meaning the most important among the rest of the headings, and has the largest visibility of font size while <h6> defines the least important heading.
  
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talksmart

16 years ago

An H1 tag is an HTML tag. Main and first heading of article and it is most important for seo purpose.H1 tag may contain keyword.Tag can communicate to search engines optimization that the page is relevant to this keywords.

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Devid Farah 16 years ago

A H1 Tag is just known as a Header marker.

It tells the browser and more importantly robots / spiders reading HTML code that what is between the tags is of the utmost importance to this page.

While the Title and description tags determine what the search engines show browsers the H1 tags are very important in what is known as on page optimization .

So what you have in between the tags <h1>xx</h1> is very important to making the page rank in the SERPs.
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- palmdale 16 years ago
  
  Is H1 is useful, that mean don't need H2 or H3, right?
  
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seoservices1

16 years ago

HI

H1 Tag is Header tag in HTML if you ware and write Article Title And Blog Post.

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parkeremily10

16 years ago

There are various types of heading tags H1 H2 H3 H4. H1 is the top most heading tag and search engine give importance to those text which are in H1 Tag.

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breetrask

16 years ago

If you want to rank your keyword in search engine then you have to work according Google guidelines. H1 tags is good for your keyword promotion. there you can highlight your primary or brand keyword.

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gameutopia

16 years ago

h1, h2, and h3 tags can be helpful. H4 and thereafter are questionable. Depends on the content and how they are used. The first three I have the best luck with. No harm in testing them and trying them out that is for sure, as long as they are not abused or over used.