H1 or H2?

Does it matter which you use for your title on the page, is one better then the other?

 

I dont think it matters but if you feel like having a SEO experiment feel free to use both. Make sure you publish your findings.

 

I do the same. I usually only have 1 H1 and I can have several H2s and H3s.

 

Thanks

One other question

Say for example you have a page on Lindsay Lohan, on that page you have a bio, with the title tag in the H1 would it be ok to make some keywords in the bio (Like her name) in a H tag and bolded or just bolded? Would that help?

 

So what about putting keywords in the bio in a 'H' tag?

 

Ok, thanks.

 

I dont use H tags at all. Am i making a drastic mistake?

 

certainly ...

 

Can you elaborate? I do not use them either.

 

Using H1 tags for the title with your keywords helps in SEO

 

If you don't need them Jamie, then that's ok. But if you have content headers, it will be good to use h1 tags.

 

I have just found that using them can be good for formatting a page and it sems to give me a boost in the SERPs when I have my keywords inside H tags.

 

Agree with those who said size those not matter.

I've read that even using <h1><h2> or <h3> these tags are not worthy if not emphasized with <b> or <strong> tags.

And keep in mind that size can be controlled by stylesheets so if yours assign 10px to <h1> the result is a smallest font size!

 

<H#> tags are not neccesary, however if you do want to improve your serps definitely use them, you'll see some significant results. Also having <h#> tags will also help your adsense targeting. Ideally I use a combination of H1 to H3 very much like a book to help organize my content on my page and make it SE friendly.

If you want to get a little more creative and really do a bang up job in documenting your raw HTML, the <H> tag also has additional attributes that you can apply to the tag ... see example below ...

<h1 title="Chineese Recipes">Chineese Cuisine Recipes</h1>

Some believe that adding the additional attributes will help in SERPs aswell. I am not 100% sure of that, but I do include them. I also use additional attributes where ever possible including lists, links, images etc. The key attributes I incorporate are title=,summarry=,alt= .

Hope this helps
Frank

 

Thanks for your feedback everyone.
I do get relevant ads triggering but just to be sure I'm doing as much as possible for the SEO
I think I'll change my titles into H1s.

If only I'd asked this question when I was doing my templates...

 

I've heard that using bold and italic text for keywords in your content will improve SEO, but overdoing it may result in penalties. So, in other words, use them as you would normally (for the benefit of the reader), only use bold or italics (not both at the same time), etc.

HTH,
Sam

 

H1 once for main heading, H@ for smaller subheadings, <p> for subsequent items. You can use CSS to make your H1 and H2 the appropriate size.