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Using H1,h2,h3 tags for all texts?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by enikram, Nov 8, 2013.

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    H tags are treated as important text. Does anyone know if say you just put all text in H2 or H3 tag. Would that be of any benefit?
     
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  2. Getawab

    Getawab Active Member

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    Well don't worry too much with this details. Search engine usually takes overall on page factors 20%-30% into account when calculates its search ranking. So the best method is to get quality backlinks!
     
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  3. enikram

    enikram Active Member

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    on-page optimization is very important, especially now. saying otherwise is nonsense
     
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    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    "All text in H2 or H3 tags"? That would seem to be an abuse of the purpose of heading tags, in my opinion.
     
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    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    Exactly. And this is the type of idiotic over-optimisation Google has been targeting. The SEO is negligible to non-existent anyway. The OP needs to focus on his audience, not stupid tactics for search engines. More important would be to ensure there are no broken internal links, the site is easy to navigate, works the same on smartphones and tablets, valid HTML (one stupid mistake could render a link useless or a page not to display properly in a particular browser, etc), good content and so on. You know, stuff for the audience, the human visitors, the ones who actually read content and spend money. Funnily enough, bots don't do that (news flash?).
     
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    You have to make sure that h1 tag is used once each page, there is no limit of h2, h3, h4 etc..

    You can use these heading tags according to your requirements it should look natural too.

    If you started using 3 times h2 or h3 tags on each page, it is not natural to the search engines.
     
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    When you think of Hx tags just think like a human.

    Usually any webpage title hierarchy created into below way:

    Main Title (represents/describes the whole content within page)

    Sub Title (represents/describes sub-topics within main topic)

    Sub Titles of Sub Titles (represents/describes sub-topics within parent sub-topic)

    So the usage of Hx tags should also be in above order.
    Main Title (H1, H2, H3 etc.)
    Sub Title (H2, H3 etc. but should be lower than Main Title)
    Sub Title of Sub Title ( H3, H4 etc. but should be lower than the parent Sub title)

    Just maintain above uniformity over all webpages. So Google will automatically understands the hierarchy/priority of Hx tages.

    Conclusion: It does not matter which Hx tag you used but how uniformly you used Hx hierarchy to all over the web pages.

    I hope above explanation helped you.
     
    NadaBolt, Nov 11, 2013 IP
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    Getawab Active Member

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    Nicely described thumbs up...
     
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  9. Praveenkumar1

    Praveenkumar1 Greenhorn

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    Exactly Header tags are very important for SEO.In website Every page one H1 tag is compulsory.In other text h2,h3 tags you use.H1 tag is mainly useful for search engine purpose.Google will found easily that keywords.
     
    Praveenkumar1, Nov 13, 2013 IP
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    Where is it written that it is compulsory? Google will find the "keywords" in the document irrespective on H1 tags. Emphasis is largely placed on meaningless stuff. Do you think your audience really gives a damn whether it is H1 or not? It can help with document structure/presentation, but for the person reading the page (the human) there is no difference between it being H1, span or anything else. What matters is the content - if it's good.
     
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  11. Vijay Devkar - SEO Genius

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    Including your important keywords in your H1 tags will not improve your ranking but might increase your CTR. But adding all the text in Heading tags will be really stupid and spammy.
     
  12. NadaBolt

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    By using header tags uniformly over your website, you help Google to understand your topic easily. Just like when I read book, if you make different heading style for Main title/topic and different heading style for subtopic/sub-title, I can easily distinguish main topic and subtopic. Eventually, if you use your keyword into your Main topic/title, you mean that there are lot of things to read/know about that particular keyword within it. But when you use your keyword within subtopic/sub-title header, you mean that there are very limited things to read/know about that particular keyword within it.

    Similarly, when you use your keyword within your title tag or domain name, you broader the reference area for that keyword within your website. which usually considered for more weight to your keywords according to Google (or other search engines).

    But as long as header tags are concerned, you may get very small importance by search engines for that keyword (but not much now a days).
    Also it depends on competition for that keyword too. For more competitive word, header tags are given negligible importance by search engines.

    I hope all above explanations may have given more idea about header tag usage (and importance).
     
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  13. Neeraj Thakur

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    Yes, this must be one of the important as well as interesting questions one might ever have in their mind. Well, there might be a handful number of good reasons for that and one of those can be that it is used to define your Html documents and also it provides structure to your website. By providing header tags, it actually helps you to get familiar with SEO, accessibility and also with the general structure of the page
     
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  14. SoftDive Technologies

    SoftDive Technologies Greenhorn

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    No this is not good to put all text in header tags. google crawl any page through html source code so no need to put all text in header tags just write quality and unique content on the page.
     
    SoftDive Technologies, Nov 13, 2013 IP