Seo help please.

[e-tailwebstores]

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Looking for some help from some seo experts!

What is the best way to add h1 and h2 tags to my site and where? Does size, font, colour, position, or any other factors matter.

I am a little confused.

I think h1 tag at the top of the content, in bold and slightly bigger than the rest of the text. While h2 I dont really pay much attention to.

Please give me your opinions.

[ChristopherB]

Technically Header tags should be in a ordered list, h1, then h2, then h3 ect...

h1 carries the most weight and should be used as your page title - so whatever the contents about, create a title reflecting that.

h2, i use as a subheading - usually after the introduction of an article, such as;

h1 - content title
introduction - content (keyword rich)
h2 - subheading
then the main article/content here.

font-size and colour - i haven't came across any time where these specifically matter as they are set via the css but i would always set the height in order (h1 - biggest) as that's the structure of my webpages.

[gadget]

Hi Barney.

I'd agree with those comments. Looking at your site, I'd look to get the navigation in either a list <li> or a header <h1> or <h2>.

I'd definitely get your 'product names' set as a <h1> or <h2>.

Don't ignore <h3> thereafter either.

I'd also have a few 'key points' listed as a list <li> too.

Have a look at this example .. BT Baby Monitor 100

The relevant code is ..

<h1 class="model">BT Baby Monitor 100</h1>
                  <div class="clear"></div>
                  <div id="prodList">
                    <ul>
                        <li>BT 100 Baby Monitor with Dect</li>
                        <li>Mains or Battery Powered</li>
                        <li>High Definition Sound</li>
                        <li>Travel Bag</li>
                        <li>Parent Talk Back</li>        
                    </ul>

[w-pumps]

Does size, font, colour, position, or any other factors matter?
No they dont. Most people control them through the use of CSS though.

[silveraden]

Looking for some help from some seo experts!

What is the best way to add h1 and h2 tags to my site and where? Does size, font, colour, position, or any other factors matter.

I am a little confused.

I think h1 tag at the top of the content, in bold and slightly bigger than the rest of the text. While h2 I dont really pay much attention to.

Please give me your opinions.

I don't understand why do you want to use such headings.. If you are referring to meta, just use <h> and </h>... You meta should be inside these tags... H1 and H2 are basically used in sidebars...

[simonjohn]

H1 for the page heading
We can use H2 for subheadings.

[Andrew Starr]

I've seen a few sites sing the <h1> tag as a text link

e.g.

<h1><a href="http://www.widgetsite.com">Widget Headline</a></h1>

Is this OK with the search engines?

I would have thought that the SE's would not look favourably on this, as it is telling them that the headline within H1 is more relevant to a different page (or a different site) to the one on which the H1 is located.

[simonjohn]

I've seen a few sites sing the <h1> tag as a text link

e.g.

<h1><a href="http://www.widgetsite.com">Widget Headline</a></h1>

Is this OK with the search engines?

I would have thought that the SE's would not look favourably on this, as it is telling them that the headline within H1 is more relevant to a different page (or a different site) to the one on which the H1 is located.

There is no use by placing the link in h1 tag, it will be considered by search engine as an ordinary link...

h1 tag is useful in the case of text heading..............

[Brendon]

>> There is no use by placing the link in h1 tag, it will be considered by search engine as an ordinary link...

Not true. SEs note the HTML elements associated with text as part of the page weighting process. Double tagging is a time honoured tactic, m'kay?

[Andrew Starr]

>> There is no use by placing the link in h1 tag, it will be considered by search engine as an ordinary link...

Not true. SEs note the HTML elements associated with text as part of the page weighting process. Double tagging is a time honoured tactic, m'kay?

So are you saying that the SEs will not penalize a site for links within <h1>?

[Brendon]

Certainly am. Why would they? If you go read the RFCs as well, you'll find there are some chucklesome tricks you can play with HTML, whilst staying perfectly "legal"

[MyWebShops]

Hi,

In my experience for sites similar to yours that i have worked on make sure your H1 tag is the same as the start as your page title tag.

e.g.

if your H1 tag is "buy bench clothing" then your page title should start with - buy bench clothing...................

Also if "buy bench clothing" is the term your looking at optimising you dont want to have the H2 tag with this in, it will harm your rankings if you do as the major search engines see this as keyword stuffing, Aim to have the phrase into the text a maximum of 4 times on one page.


Good luck

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[simon1984]

In my opinion, the main benefit of H2 tags is to take advantage of long tail keywords. This can drive additional and often unexpected traffic to your site.

Check out this article on long tail keywords to explore their benefits.