Hi i am wondering on my website i have a lot of information condensed together in each article i am thinking of adding instead of just underlined subheadings using h2 tags and h3 tags for subheadings. If i were to do this continously throughout my website would this be considering spamming of headline tags or is there anything else i should watch out for? This is to basically increase my keyword density Will.
How long are your articles? (I have a feeling this is going to stray far from SEO and into copywriting...)
Because you're writing copy (hence "copy" "writing" or "copywriting") for people to read (and use). Do you think you could provide me with a representative example of what your typical article looks like? With each article being unique, the structure will tend to dictate whether lower level headings (H2-H6) will be used, if they're even necessary.
Eghads, that page (the one you PM'd me) is horrible (from a markup perspective). Take the headings out of your menu (they belong in the page content). You also shouldn't repeat your menu (one menu - that's it). And please, increase the text size. Your HTML should look like this (I'll be using placeholder lorem ipsum content). <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Untitled Document Template</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="description" content="A brief description of the current page goes here." /> <meta name="keywords" content="keywords, go, here, only, once, page, content, has, been, finished" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/screen.css" media="screen,projection" /> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> <img src="/images/logo.png" width="" height="" alt="(Name of Web Site) Logo" title="" /> </div> <ul id="menu"> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li> <a href="#">Menu Link</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Menu Link</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Menu Link</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Menu Link</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Menu Link</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Menu Link</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sub-Menu Link</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <div id="content"> <div class="wrapper"> <h1>Web Page Title</h1> <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec luctus eleifend libero. Quisque magna est, volutpat id, convallis in, tincidunt quis, quam. Etiam pulvinar. Morbi facilisis consectetuer massa. Etiam faucibus metus eget sem. Etiam commodo aliquet nulla. Vestibulum sit amet lectus. Maecenas pulvinar purus at lorem feugiat scelerisque. Fusce est. Nunc sodales ipsum in mauris. Phasellus vitae erat. Nunc ac augue. Integer dapibus ante at odio. Donec sed lacus. Nulla in sapien laoreet velit blandit laoreet. Sed vitae leo. Etiam sodales. </p> <h2>Major Section Heading</h2> <p> Sed scelerisque felis a dui varius eleifend. Praesent convallis rhoncus magna. Mauris est arcu, pulvinar in, gravida vel, dignissim in, purus. Vestibulum porttitor pede a lectus. Sed vestibulum nibh vel quam. Quisque elit. Nulla pretium iaculis sapien. Nam porta. Nullam bibendum odio ut justo. Suspendisse tristique sodales neque. Nunc orci felis, pellentesque nec, ornare vitae, consequat eget, nunc. Nam viverra commodo eros. Fusce sagittis turpis vel tortor. Proin et tortor vitae neque consequat pretium. Cras leo sapien, sagittis quis, malesuada nec, dapibus id, augue. In ut dui. Nam a tellus. </p> <h3>Minor Section Heading</h3> <p> Aliquam non arcu. In aliquet aliquam pede. Fusce aliquam lacinia leo. Sed malesuada nibh at orci. Suspendisse potenti. Donec nec sem nec pede blandit sodales. In mauris. Donec iaculis pellentesque nulla. Proin varius, libero ultrices fringilla aliquet, sapien augue tincidunt enim, sed vehicula arcu arcu et purus. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Pellentesque facilisis. Aliquam fermentum, quam ac iaculis dignissim, lorem erat elementum nulla, id gravida felis neque nec augue. Mauris ac dolor a neque porta vestibulum. Duis purus. Sed luctus scelerisque neque. </p> <h3>Minor Section Heading</h3> <p> Nulla tincidunt tortor et eros facilisis elementum. Pellentesque rutrum cursus diam. Nulla imperdiet pulvinar magna. Nam nibh risus, rhoncus non, dignissim id, condimentum eu, nisi. Suspendisse est sapien, dapibus ac, lobortis non, condimentum non, dolor. Aenean euismod odio ac turpis. In vitae sapien. Praesent pharetra, enim pretium cursus hendrerit, justo orci blandit ligula, et hendrerit mi velit ut nulla. Maecenas vitae pede eu dui viverra tempor. Aenean est enim, hendrerit ut, iaculis vitae, blandit non, ipsum. In in turpis. </p> <h2>Major Section Heading</h2> <p> Maecenas purus. Suspendisse eget nisi. Etiam quis quam aliquam metus commodo aliquet. Fusce sodales lectus sed eros. Donec augue elit, tristique eu, suscipit ac, suscipit non, pede. Nullam ut tortor. Suspendisse arcu. Curabitur arcu tortor, varius in, tempus at, molestie vel, justo. In tristique, pede eget sollicitudin mollis, ligula sem ultrices tortor, non ornare magna sapien sit amet odio. Integer adipiscing lorem id mauris. Vestibulum erat nibh, suscipit feugiat, tincidunt sit amet, interdum nec, urna. Donec sagittis vulputate sem. Suspendisse tempus, metus ultrices adipiscing sollicitudin, diam orci varius elit, ac volutpat ante purus eget metus. </p> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <!-- if you use a sidebar for anything OTHER than a menu, this is where the sidebar content, such as ads, would go --> </div> <div id="footer"> <em> Copyright © 2006-2008, The Monster Under the Bed. All rights to scare unsuspecting children reserved. </em> <!-- you'd only need the list if your footer contains a list of links, which is what a menu is anyway --> <ul> <li><a href="#">Footer Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Footer Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Footer Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Footer Link</a></li> <li><a href="#">Footer Link</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html> Code (markup): Notice how this version (which uses placeholder content, mind you) has the headings (including H2s) in the CONTENT, not the menu (where you had yours). Yes, I did add a menu to the footer, but that was done to show you what markup you should use if you were to add a "list of links" to the footer anyway. If you don't want/need it, you can remove it. You also shouldn't repeat your menu (you had the menu on the top and left sides) - people can and likely will be confused. One site, one menu (most of the time - and your site doesn't qualify for an exception).
It does not matter. Tags aren't spamming. Keywords can be considered spamming or stuffing when it is done excessively. Beware
Tell that to a person using the Web site. You didn't see the page he sent me, so I doubt you have any idea as to what was on it and/or where in the first place.