Is H1 really necessary for the startsite of a blog?

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Is H1 really necessary for the startsite of a blog?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. Sometimes

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  1. #1
    This is what some tools told me: I dont have any H1 on my blog startsites, because normally I just work with h2 snippets there.

    So is it really necessary or have any ranking issues?

    Thank you a bunch for helping me out :)
     
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    robotnik55, Mar 19, 2017 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #2
    Sounds like you don't know how to use classes properly.

    As a basic rule of thumb - one H1, two H2, 3 H3 and so on.
     
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  3. #3
    By definition you CANNOT use H2 without FIRST using H1. Ditto all the way through H7.
     
    mmerlinn, Mar 19, 2017 IP
  4. robotnik55

    robotnik55 Greenhorn

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    Thx. Normally much themes dont use any H1 at the startsite of the blog (wenn chosing a grafic as logo and no text), but shows the blog snippets there as h2 then too. But it makes sense what merlin wrote: h2 without h1 is senseless. So I will use a h1 although it is optically no pretty thing.
     
    robotnik55, Mar 19, 2017 IP
  5. mmerlinn

    mmerlinn Prominent Member

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    #5
    If you are using H1 etc for what they LOOK LIKE, you are using them for the WRONG reason. That is what CSS is for.
     
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  6. robotnik55

    robotnik55 Greenhorn

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    Cant get waht you want to tell me dear merlin. Can you explain maybe? thx!
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #7
    "optically" your h1 can look however you like. Use styles to change the font, size, colour etc.
     
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    robotnik55 Greenhorn

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    Ah ok. I meant by this that each style would look not pretty because there is a logo too. But is has to I think.
     
    robotnik55, Mar 20, 2017 IP
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    #9
    A webpage with single H1 tag is good!
    H1 tag must have your targeted keyword in it.
    Also dont forget to optimize your Title tag. It should be differ from your H1 tag.
    H2 tag contain 60% relevancy of your targeted keywords
    H3 tag contain 40% relevancy of your targeted keywords
    H4, H5...15% relevancy
     
    metricbuzz, Mar 21, 2017 IP