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Best way to use H1 tags etc

by SFM Champ
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I know that there are H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 etc tags for wordpress sites.
Does anyone recommend including one of each type of tag, in order, as the page scrolls down? Is there any benefit in that?
Has anyone had success with using more than one type of heading tag on a single page? I mean something like: one H1 tag, three H2 tags, 4 H3 tags etc or, in terms of SEO is this to be avoided?
#tags
  • Profile picture of the author Joel Young
    H tags should always be used in order, but you can "stack them", like this:

    H1
    H2
    H2
    H3
    H4
    H5
    H5
    H6

    or something like this:

    H1
    H2
    H1
    H2
    H1
    H2
    H3
    H4

    What's not good is to do H1, H3, H5....
    And even though I just did it for example purposes, you should not use more than one H1 per page. But you can use as many of the others as you need.

    And of course the size of the headings can be changed with CSS.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hansons
      Originally Posted by Joel Young View Post

      H tags should always be used in order, but you can "stack them", like this:

      H1
      H2
      H2
      H3
      H4
      H5
      H5
      H6

      or something like this:

      H1
      H2
      H1
      H2
      H1
      H2
      H3
      H4

      What's not good is to do H1, H3, H5....
      And even though I just did it for example purposes, you should not use more than one H1 per page. But you can use as many of the others as you need.

      And of course the size of the headings can be changed with CSS.
      One web page should have only one h1 tag..
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      • Profile picture of the author Joel Young
        Originally Posted by Hansons View Post

        One web page should have only one h1 tag..
        Yes, I said that. Read my entire post.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Wrap your most important keyword per page with a single <h1> tag, at the very top of the page.

    Use multiple <h2> tags for sub-headings If you have enough text on the page to work with.

    What this does is help you get additional jump-links in your SEP description. This has been working for years, still works today. Wikipedia does this on most article pages (see screenshot below).

    The links in the <ul> would jump down the page to the correct <h2> tag.


    <title>Building Repair - domain.com</title>

    <h1>Building Repair</h1>

    <h2>Repairs</h2>
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam egestas mauris eu tortor pellentesque nec iaculis orci eleifend. Etiam lobortis egestas purus vel pharetra. Suspendisse non mi augue. Phasellus quis nulla ac dolor adipiscing sodales. Nunc nibh lorem, congue a tempus sed, rhoncus in lacus. Morbi aliquet nisi nec purus vulputate sit amet congue risus faucibus. Nulla facilisi. Vivamus congue odio luctus tellus scelerisque luctus.

    <h2>Maintenance Plans</h2>
    Nulla egestas vulputate diam sed adipiscing. Integer convallis turpis at eros venenatis sit amet vulputate justo vehicula. Phasellus cursus congue nulla, vitae cursus metus aliquam id. Integer magna risus, auctor vel commodo ultricies, euismod vel orci. Sed tincidunt, mauris quis facilisis consectetur, ipsum velit porttitor libero, vitae tempus nunc velit ullamcorper risus.

    <h2>Quotes</h2>
    Vivamus cursus dapibus ligula, eu dapibus lectus euismod quis. Cras purus augue, aliquam id congue sed, vestibulum ut felis. Suspendisse nulla turpis, feugiat nec facilisis non, condimentum vel ligula.
    You can still get jump-links in Google SERPs without the <h2> tags, but the <h2> tag puts more emphasis on the text your targeting (jump-link text).





    Step #1














    Step #2 (<h2> tag)











    Step #3


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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    Yukon, I been meaning to ask you for the longest time, how do you draw those arrows and highlight certain words like that?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

      Yukon, I been meaning to ask you for the longest time, how do you draw those arrows and highlight certain words like that?
      I did that with MS Paint.

      Grab the screenshot with Prt Scr (print screen) button on the keyboard, paste, crop, & draw in MS Paint.
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      • Profile picture of the author nest28
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        I did that with MS Paint.

        Grab the screenshot with Prt Scr (print screen) button on the keyboard, paste, crop, & draw in MS Paint.
        Thanx, I been meaning to ask for like a yr now lol. I thought it was some online site or something.
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      • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        I did that with MS Paint.

        Grab the screenshot with Prt Scr (print screen) button on the keyboard, paste, crop, & draw in MS Paint.
        Do you draw with a mouse or tablet?
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by RobinInTexas View Post

          Do you draw with a mouse or tablet?
          Only a mouse, no tablet.
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        • Profile picture of the author livemusic
          Originally Posted by RobinInTexas View Post

          Do you draw with a mouse or tablet?
          With what he drew, you can do it all with a mouse in Paint, including the curved lines. Looks to me that he made the arrowhead manually by adding two short lines to his curved line... I do not see an arrowhead thingie in Paint.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Use H1 tags ONLY for your MAIN keyword, H2 for your secondary keywords and maybe a few H3 tags for some good keywords, which you are NOT exactly trying to rank for. And do NOT use the same keywords multiple times... More than 3-5 is NOT a good strategy!
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  • Profile picture of the author deppdog82
    Like most have said, <h> tags should contain you most important keywords, <h1> is the more important and should only be used once per page. The rest can be used multiple times on a page but should follow a specific hierarchy in a particular article.
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  • Profile picture of the author SFM Champ
    Thanks for these great insights guys!
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