I wanted to discuss about the H tags, and why search engines consider the <h1> tag better that <h2>,<h3>, etc ...and if it's true that a <h1> is more powerful than <h2>,<h3>, etc.
h1 is a top-level heading among all headings available in web html code. Its has a top priority in view of web development and user interaction. There are six levels of headings from H1 (the most important) to H6 (the least important). Visual browsers usually render more important headings in larger fonts than less important ones. Therefore search engine love H1 tag very much. If your web page have H1 tag then other heading tags is equivalent.
So if I've had a blog where my titles were <h3> and I've changed them to <h1> ..after Google will reindex them, I'll get higher rankings ? After how much time after reindexing Google gives you higher rankings ?
Commonly if you change h3 to h1.it will ranking your SERPs.hwo much time? is not a certainty. I think this.
Several SEO gurus discussed this topic recently in an interview with SEOmoz. I suggest you to read the excellent article (Google Search Engine Ranking Factors) that was published about it.
Hi, In a web page H1 to H6 tags are considered as the most important from the entire text. Search Engines do not consider the weight as the same for every tag form H1 to H6. H1 tags, are the most important among titles and for SEO purpose.As you increase the title level (H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6), the preference will be given lesser to its contents by the search engines. Hence your SEO optimisation efforts should be focused on H1 tag first and then H2 tag and so on .
I was reading the Seomoz's Ranking Factors and one guru mentioned that <hx> tags may be gamed by using stylesheets. I'd love to hear people's personal experiences with the <hx> tags. My site doesn't use <hx> tags currently so I am looking for some advice...
That's exactly right, people will normally choose the "h" tag that most suits the look of their page. With h1 tags been large they do not normally look great. The problem comes when the html should be written as a mark up language for the benefit of the reader. Consider if that people are blind and are using a screen reader, an h1 tag is read with more emphasis as a title and h2 and h3 are sub-titles. By using CSS you can still use the tags as they are supposed to in the mark up but alter the size of one or all h tags on your page, make them smaller than normal, different font etc by using the code such as: h1 { font-size:small(or even a number of points/em's); }
title tags should describe your page and be similar in content to your h1 tags - it's just good coding practice to use h1 tags as the page visible title for your content. Then if your content has subsections you can use the h2, h3 etc... it gives your page a standard, and therefore easy to read, layout. Good luck,
HEADING TAGS (<h1>, <h2>, <h3>) are used as topics of the website’s sections. Terms in headers are valued high in most search engines.