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can anyone please tell me that how many times we can use H1 tag in a web page and where should be it. in body or head section.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    <h1> tag goes in the <body>, one <h1> per page. Check out www.w3schools.com for basic HTML standards (not SEO).

    Consider <h> tags as alternative page titles for Google SERPs.

    I stick with one <h1> per page & and If I need more heading tags I make the rest <h2> & forget everything else (<h3> - <h6>).

    Most Wikipedia pages are structured good If you want to take a look at their source code.
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  • Profile picture of the author frettcarla
    H1 tag should be used only one time. There should not be any repetition. Rest of the tags should be H2, H3 and so on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Stephaniejason20
      Originally Posted by frettcarla View Post

      H1 tag should be used only one time. There should not be any repetition. Rest of the tags should be H2, H3 and so on.
      Absolutely true. H1 is alternative uses of page title. Sometimes title not working in title tags at that time google will used h1 tags as the title.
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  • Profile picture of the author aamirawans
    if it should be used one time then its better.
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    • Profile picture of the author ConsultJoseph
      Originally Posted by aamirawans View Post

      if it should be used one time then its better.
      There's no better or worse. You only use it ONCE and that's it. There's no option if you want to optimize a page in on-page SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author beetwist96
    The best number is 1. But i have seen many site have more than H1 tag but it still ranked well. The reason is these H1 tag is not related so Google wasn't thought its spam
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  • Profile picture of the author komugi
    Use H1 tag one per page of your website..
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  • Profile picture of the author MukeshKr
    The h1 tag is an important tag from seo points of view, you should use you keyword as h1 tag once in a page. It should be used as the main title in the body.
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  • Profile picture of the author erpsoftware
    Thank you so much friends for your suggestions.
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  • Profile picture of the author ketul
    You can use this tag one time per page.
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  • Profile picture of the author SammiRose
    Usage of h1 is most important and make it for the main keyword of the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author webbzer
    Hi frd,
    H1 Tag Used One Time in One Web Page.
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  • Profile picture of the author ActionEstore
    You can use H1 tag only one time... But I have seen that website uses many h1 tag and thy still rank well...
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  • Profile picture of the author kiddoman
    I have an attendant question regarding to <h> tag. If my web pages don't have <h1> tag, will it harmful for my site rank? I only use <h3> tags in most of my web pages, I am not sure whether it will affect my site's rank a lot or not. Thanks so much if you can help me answer my question.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bryan Harkins
    Like most of the people here said, just use an H1 tage one time. If you want to have other H tags use H2 or H3's. No point to having more than 1 H1 tage.
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  • Profile picture of the author stevenjacobs
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    It should be in head section of your website
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  • Profile picture of the author VivekThakur
    <h1> is heading tag. It is used to Title of the page and Title is always one another are sub heading. we can use <h2>, <h3> ... etc for sub heading but <h1> tag should be used once.
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  • Profile picture of the author stevenjacobs
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    yeah title is the one below heading is title tags
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronsmithewc
    H1 Tag Used One Time in One Web Page. Do not use more than one h1 tag on a page unless really necessary. Usually pages will have a single h1 heading and including two might make search engines think this as an attempt to include more keywords for SEO in multiple h1 tags. It is better to divide the content into two separate topics on individual pages with their own h1 tags. This makes more sense to both readers and the search engine spiders, however using
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  • Profile picture of the author savyeman
    Originally Posted by erpsoftware View Post

    can anyone please tell me that how many times we can use H1 tag in a web page and where should be it. in body or head section.
    You H1 tag should be used just once on your page and should be the title of your article, at the top. You should also include your primary keyword in there, you should also not use your primary keyword more than twice on the page anywhere just include other LSI keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author onsmith
      This is a very interesting topic, especially with the "new" HTML5 document structure. As everyone so far has pointed out, the best, most commonly held view is that multiple <h1> tags in the same document is generally a bad idea. However, like most things, this is not a black-and-white issue.

      The HTML5 specification introduces new "semantic" tags, including <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <main>, <aside>, <article>, and <section>. These tags are very similar to the old, generic <div> tag, except that they provide additional semantic value to the document. A quick Google search provides a wealth of articles about these semantic elements.

      Because so many web pages amalgamate multiple standalone articles together on one page, HTML5 introduces the concept of "sectioning elements." Basically, a sectioning element is a special container element whose contents usually include a seperate title, header, footer, etc, and could theoretically act as independent content, separate from the rest of the document. The HTML5 sectioning elements are <article>, <section>, <nav>, and <aside>.

      Since these sectioning elements could be considered independent from the rest of the document, it makes sense (in a contrived way) that one of them (for example, an <article></article> element) might be synthesized multiple times in different locations on the same website. In the interest of being able to paste a single <article> element into multiple pages without having to change the levels of the <h> tags to match the surrounding documents, it was decided that the document outline would reset inside these sectioning elements. This means that in HTML5 documents, it is acceptable to have multiple <h1> tags in the same document, if they are properly nested inside sectioning elements. For example, the title of an <article></article> element would be contained in an <h1> tag that lies inside the <article> element.

      Having said this, it might be wise from a SEO and backwards-compatibility standpoint to continue to format your documents using the old "only one <h1> per page" paradigm.

      See our friend Google for articles debating HTML5's new approach on multiple <h1> tags in the same document.
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  • Profile picture of the author anamaria
    i am using h1 only once
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