How Many H1 Tags on a Page

[mickeym]

Only use an h1 tag once. If you need more headings on the page, work your way though h2 - h6.

Personally, I would only use each tag once on a page. If you want to have multiple sub-headings etc then I would recommend using a simple CSS class to style the text larger and bolder if you so wish.

 

[cmcp]

Only use an h1 tag once. If you need more headings on the page, work your way though h2 - h6.

Yes, you started so well...

Personally, I would only use each tag once on a page. If you want to have multiple sub-headings etc then I would recommend using a simple CSS class to style the text larger and bolder if you so wish.

WHAT?! NO NO NO. If your section of content requires a heading level give it a heading level. It doesn't matter how many you have as long as it is structured correctly.

You shouldn't be concerned about how many heading levels you have, rather the length of the content overall.

 

[nitro23456]

I think he meant CSS to control the H1 H2 tags to be fair. There is nothing wrong with that.

 

[MartinLedley]

If you break your text up with sub-headings the search engine will attach a prominence value to the first words of each one (so using keywords for these is essential). Each of these sub-headings should have the <H1> tag, so I suppose it doesn't really matter, as long as there aren't too many.

 

[mickeym]

WHAT?! NO NO NO. If your section of content requires a heading level give it a heading level. It doesn't matter how many you have as long as it is structured correctly.

You shouldn't be concerned about how many heading levels you have, rather the length of the content overall.

Calm yourself down.

I agree that subject headings should use the heading tags from 1 through to 6.

However, if I wanted a subheading within those sections I would use a css class to style the text to how I would like it (slightly bigger, slightly bolder, maybe a different colour to the main body of text).

Also, it's not about the length of content at all. You should be concentrating on the quality.

 

[Ali-v-8]

I cant help myself -I must join in. its like "Who want to be a millionaire" with all the answers.

Phone a friend!! - (preferbly someone who works in SEO) answer one h1
50 / 50 - 1 or 2 - Answer is still ONE
Ask the audience - You already had the correct answer "1" but like who wants to be a millionaire there is always one guy who presses the wrong answer for a joke. (hmmmmm massey)

And Nitro is right you can have H1's in whatever size you want

 

[terryuk]

That made me laugh

Not sure why but still smiling now

 

[cmcp]

I think he meant CSS to control the H1 H2 tags to be fair. There is nothing wrong with that.

Of course not I think the point's confirmed further on...

However, if I wanted a subheading within those sections I would use a css class to style the text to how I would like it (slightly bigger, slightly bolder, maybe a different colour to the main body of text).

Styling text to look like a heading level is fundamentally wrong to structuring a document with markup.

This is what the heading levels are for. You nest them for sub levels. You have one H1 on a page, then all the main sub headings are H2. If each of those sub sections have sub headings, that level of the hieracrchy is H3. Any under that, H4 and so on.

Also, it's not about the length of content at all. You should be concentrating on the quality.

I did not say "it was about" the length of content, I said if you are concerned about the number of heading levels you are using the issue is with the length of the content. There is nothing wrong with using many heading levels. And the quality of content goes without saying.

 

[Urban Publications]

Wow Massey your dis-regard for h1 has caused a right Kerfuffel

Do you reckon I will be alright leaving the yellow/green wire out my new 3 phase motor as it looks a bit big???

 

[Ali-v-8]

To be honest massey was being sarcastic. (i hope)

Wow Massey your dis-regard for h1 has caused a right Kerfuffel

Do you reckon I will be alright leaving the yellow/green wire out my new 3 phase motor as it looks a bit big???

 

[mcjohn]

Hello you should use only one h1 tags on your single page but H2 tags can be used two or more times.

 

[Websitehandyman]

The fact you have H1 or not has not reflection of seo whatsoever as far as I can see. The are a lot of wordpress sites that don't have H1 on there home page. This is because in their theme they have chosen an image logo not text.

 

[bdw]

The fact you have H1 or not has not reflection of seo whatsoever as far as I can see.

Can you back this up with a citation?

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[cmcp]

I do believe this is the point Massey is quite obsessed with. I don't doubt it either, I think it's fair enough that taking the H1 away may not have a direct impact on SEO. The idea seemed to be that Google likes pages to look quite natural and it was accepted that sometimes pages will not be 100% semantic.

However, this is very different from "you don't need an H1 on the page anymore" which is what was argued at the time. It's just ridiculous to base a standard of HTML on what currently trends your site in a third party search engine.

 

[nitro23456]

Its of my opinion that a decent H1 still has on-page SEO benefits. Its when people match the H1 to the page title and/or alt tags and/or inbound anchors that they run into difficulties.

It needs to be a variation of your theme.

 

[fisicx]

The are a lot of wordpress sites that don't have H1 on there home page. This is because in their theme they have chosen an image logo not text.

That's a reflection on poor theme creation rather than an observation on the ranking benefits of H1.

The google SEO guide says:

Heading tags (not to be confused with the <head> HTML tag or HTTP headers) are used to present structure on the page to users. There are six sizes of heading tags, beginning with <h1>, the most important, and ending with <h6>, the least important (1).

 

[Ali-v-8]

I dont like to say this but - All those who say one H1 and that its is important for SEO please feel free to pat your self on the back.

All those who say you dont need h1's or anything to that effect, please feel free to send me over your client list and quit SEO as a career.