Just a small query before I hop off to bed, what difference, if any, does it make using <h1>, <h2>, etc.. tags and having the google bot scan your site? Is it a good or bad thing using them? And does there bot mainly use that to detect stuff on websites?
It's a good thing to use <Hn> tags not because of Google but because this is the right way to organize page content. And I think, it's could be used by SE to determine the nature of the content, and the page topic
Look in this forum: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12 I made a post here which will help aswell: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=240710
Headers tag helps especially H1 H1 will aid the bots to determine what are the keywords that the page focus.
I have seen that it is espacially true for the <h1> tag. But it looks bad on pages so I put it for SO but reduce it with css to make the page looking better. I have both world
Good question. When I got involved in HTML back in 94-95, that was probably the first tag learnt with <html> and <body>. You may get back to the html coding and re-read these tags that have been put on the side by css and other stuff. The basic need to be known...
The difference between H1 and H2 is basically that h1 is meant for the main title of the page, while h2 is meant for subheadings. Google will take it like that as well: the keywords in h1 tags will have (a bit) more weight then keywords in h2 or h3 headings. Do make sure all headings have 'natural' wording though: google penalizes overstuffing with keywords these days.
I have a three word phrase in one of my header tags which allows me to rank 1 for that phrase. When I change it, I no longer rank 1.
Haha yep, the tags aren't a big conspiracy anything! They do work, I don't know why people think they don't (maybe because they don't rank #1 instantly after putting their phrase in the <h1> tag?)
In my experiments (some time ago) I find that Google and MSN in particular both pay attention to the H1 tag. You also need a complimentary TITLE tag, preferably not exactly the same, but there's no real problem if it is. For example, If it was a page about digital photography, you might have a H1 of "Digital Photography Resources", and a TITLE of "Digital Photography Links and More." Your meta keywords and description would include them all. Lastly, only include one H1 on the page, I've seen pages penalised for having more than one. (Was ranking with one, ranking reduced when I changed a h2 to a h1). kr, LiamVictor