Doubt about the use of H tags

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ArielT

Hello, I have been reading a bit about this tags, my doubt now is should I use them in page such as contact, about? or with a site map this is covered?

And aslo, should I use the meta description and site title in these pages?

They matter most for the pages with real content. Like articles, posts, information and service pages. They're not very important for contact/about/generic stuff.

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vjboc

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ArielT

Hello, I have been reading a bit about this tags, my doubt now is should I use them in page such as contact, about? or with a site map this is covered?

And aslo, should I use the meta description and site title in these pages?

I would not use any of it on Contact, About pages. You want to use H tags and Meta tags for important pages.

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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

Yes use heading tags on the Contact/About pages, I can't imagine any page not looking silly If you didn't properly format the page/text.

Besides for a service niche site, Contact & About pages are important & using heading tags is also good for on-page SEO. OP obviously has a service type site in his forum sig., even If the site is parked (lol).

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Michael71

13 years ago

Everything can be styled via CSS...

So using H tags on Contact/About sites is okay.

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SEOtraveler

13 years ago

H-tags are important for your content. Here are some tips for you to use them:
- use only one h1 tag at a single page. Sometimes Google may pick it instead of the title to show in SERP, so it has to be relevant.
- try to consider inclusion. It means that it's natural when h5 goes after h4 tag.
- sure you don't have to use all or most of the h-tags on the contact page. But usually you have some text with is a title for that page (I don't mean a meta title here). In most of the cases your CMS will show it in h1 tag.
- track your competitors and see what they do for their h-tags. In some niches the factor of using keywords in h-tags can help you, although this factor is not as important as the title.

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Originally Posted by SEOtraveler

- use only one h1 tag at a single page.

Except if you code your pages in HTML5 > it can have more than one h1 tags, when using them in sections. Maybe you should learn about it before giving advice...

Originally Posted by SEOtraveler

- track your competitors and see what they do for their h-tags.

Just make sure they are not dumber than... your webmaster - don't follow them if they know nothing about SEO :rolleyes:

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AWill

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Except if you code your pages in HTML5 > it can have more than one h1 tags, when using them in sections. Maybe you should learn about it before giving advice...

More than one H1 on a page: good or bad? - YouTube

While Google and the HTML5 spec says it's OK, you have to take what Matt Cutts says with a grain of salt (I'm choosing to ignore the spec here because what you can do in web design sometimes conflicts with what you should do for SEO and user experience). If CSS doesn't load or there is some other error, multiple H1's could confuse the user.

In my experience, I've had the best results using a single H1 tag on a page and using H2's for the sub-headings.

Too many H1's can look spammy to the SE's (they never tell you how much is too much). If you are breaking up a page about a single topic into sections, a single H1 (for the main topic) and multiple H2's (for the related sections/subtopics) would be a better choice. Remember, the H tags are hierarchal. Google looks for this structure and compares it to page content when spidering your site. If you have a very long content page (not a sales page), that spans multiple topics, consider splitting it into multiple pages (if you have enough content for each) to capture different search terms (so one topic doesn't dilute the other and vice versa). For a blog or blog archive page, all of the post titles are H2's and the title of the whole page or archive is the H1.

As for the OP's question: Yes, use the H1 tag on these pages. It keeps the design consistent and gives the SE's info about the page's content. Same goes for the title tag. The title and description are what shows up to humans in the search results. So, make sure they're descriptive, relevant, and readable. Make the title less than 70 characters and the description less than 156.

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ArielT

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AWill

As for the OP's question: Yes, use the H1 tag on these pages. It keeps the design consistent and gives the SE's info about the page's content. Same goes for the title tag. The title and description are what shows up to humans in the search results. So, make sure they're descriptive, relevant, and readable. Make the title less than 70 characters and the description less than 156.

Then if I understood well what you said, each page have their own title tag and their own description tag? if so, then I guess the description for the home page would be consider for what is the site about in general terms, and the description in other pages is just for being more specific in that?

Sorry if I could misunderstand something