H1,H2,H3 tags important for keyword weightage

I think ssandecki's response to this bit of mis-information sums it up quite nicely.

If you really think writing for search engines is the best way to go, then I strongly suggest you read Why Writing for Spiders is the Least Sticky Strategy of All before making any further misleading comments of this nature.

 

I think headlines do count for something in SEO but they are there for semantic markup, not design purposes.

Rarely these days do webdesigners go beyond H1 and H2, and if you do use them make sure that you only use one per page and in running order, ie: H1 and then H2 only... not several H2's or H1's just for a supposed SEO affect...

As for using the <b> attribute, get out of town... use CSS as it's the standard today and will be forever more as long as the web exists...

Hell, I can never say <b> doesn't count for anything in SEO, but if it does it is extremely negligible and this is weighed up because by using it you are going against good webdesign and accessibility...

 

Well I took some HTML lesssons and my teacher said H1 and so on helps for SERP.

And I guess he knows what he says....

 

Be careful Bonzo3000, a lot of teachers who claim they know HTML really don't. (It's like the card game "Magic: The Gathering; it's easy to learn, yet hard to master.)

 

Does he teach HTML or SEO? Last I checked they can be considered two seperate fields.

 

And given what I've seen of many "SEO"s, they better not be involved in the latter field unless they know the former inside-out, left-to-right, front-to-back, like the back of their hand.

But that's just my personal opinion.

 

The best way to get and keep visitors is to write for visitors but also use your niche and long tailed keywords in order to reach those people via search engines. Making your site rank first is great but if they all jump off the site . . . . whats the point? The best sites are ones that give useful information that people talk about and that makes people come back to read more. Look at google it started, really, by simply word of mouth becuase it worked so well for the user and now look at it.

 

Thank you very much Dan, I appreciate your comments.
If we use H1 tag and apply a class written in CS, just to keep the page look good with H1 tag, would that be a problem. the cs file is external.

 

It depends on what you'll be doing with the CSS code.

 

I am just reducing the size of H1 tag and removing its default line break feature.
So though its H1 but it looks like normal bold text.

 

So you want to make it appear like a normal-sized inline element but with bold text? There shouldn't be a problem if this is done responsibly, though it may cause the site to be flagged for a manual review if done on every page.

You are using only one H1 heading per page, right?

 

I am using multiple h1 headings for my different services or rather important keywords on that page.

 

Then I wouldn't do it. Instead, I'd change those multiple H1s to H2s and use the top-most H1 for the top-most heading on that page (like a page title). Do that, and you should be fine (though I make no guarantees).

Remember, don't make Web pages for search engines. Make them for people. (And if you want to see something really scary, try downloading a free trial of a screen reader program and try using your Web pages with THAT - you'll find out pretty darn quickly why proper heading structures are so important.)