Multiple H1 tags

BuzzedBuns is right but site should be proper and html must be on w3c standard.

One page should have just on H1 tag. It's like a king or the top position. You cannot have multiple kings or it will result in chaos. Right!

well H1 tags is used one time, its kind of title for the page...

1 h1 tag on top...

It is a good idea to use one per page. The risk is that you cause confusion under the important heading of consistent relevance - ie if two h1 tags give the search engine spiders conflicting information about the page.

you can have as many as you like but you should have only one on each page

2-3 is best in my opinion, not to say 1 is bad. Think less numbers, more... what are you really trying to say? Hopefully you don't have 10 big points on your page, and if you do, consider breaking it up in to several pages.

The idea that it's an absolute rule there can only be a single H1 tag per page is a myth. There is actually nothing to prevent the use of multiple H1 tags if the situation calls for it. The answer is "It depends".

Heading tags are like markers that create an outline of your page. For example:

• Heading 1
  • Heading 2
    • Heading 3
    • Heading 3
      • Heading 4
  • Heading 2
  • Heading 2
    • Heading 3

If there is a single headline on your page that is the most important, it should have an H1 tag applied to it accordingly. For example, on a page that holds one article the title should have H1 tags on it.

The same thing goes for H2 tags, i.e. they should be applied to any headlines of a secondary level of importance. So on a single article this might apply to a subtitle for example.

And from there H3, H4 tags and so on would apply to any headlines at the next level of importance in your "outline".

But what if you have a page where there is no single headline that stands out as being the most important? For example, a page that shows the intros of a series of articles with their titles displayed, but that has no other headline?

In this case all the article titles become the most important headlines on the page. And because there are multiple headlines of equal top level importance, the appropriate thing to do is apply H1 tags to all of them.

But all that said, the most important factor for good rankings is just good content and plenty of it. You could never lift a finger to optimize for search engines, and you have plenty of great content you'll still outrank perfectly SEO'd rubbish.

So do your SEO, but remember to put quality up there as your top priority.

I used a lot <h1> on my website which can improve searching engine ranking according to web design book.

Using H1 tag once in a page in good practice and it should be title of that page and title will be your Targeting Keywords for that page.
Suppose, you used H1 tag two times so search engine crawler will confuse which one should give most priority. If you use H1 tag once then Search Engine crawler index H1 text and It helps the SREP of the page.

I'm used to using H1 every page with different title indeed...so it'll be optimize every page as well.

need advice if I'm wrong

Multiple H1 tags are OK if you use HTML 5 only.

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Hello
In my opinion there should be only one h1 as the main title of the page

You can use multiple H1 tags for sure, if you want to dilute the effect of the H1 tag at some point, use ccs for this. USe will see the diluted effect of the H1 and search engine will still consider that as H1

Having more than one h1 tag on a page is fine. Just don't over do it.

You can use multiple h1 tags, but this is bad for on page optimization.

H1 tag should be your page title and nothing more. All other titles and headlines should be h2, h3 and etc.

You should edit your wordpress theme to show the proper h tags when listing the posts and when viewing the post it self.

Using multiple H1 tags shouldn't have any significant effects on SEO efforts. Because HTML5 uses powerful sectioning elements, it's quite common to see H1s used for each section of a page.

However headings are also used to show hierarchy, and most pages will have one clear heading that takes precedence. There are exceptions - such as blogs.

So using multiple H1s is fine, and it's not a major SEO issue (unless they're stuffed with keywords), but most of the time it's unnecessary.

The bold ones are the keywords! Unless you are fluent in HTML5 and you know how to use the section tags... don't do it.

P.S. Tom, usually posts digging up a year old thread get deleted. So, don't be surprised...