I was experimenting with Google on very very competitive keywords that return 300-500 million results. I did not have an H1 tag or H2 or... H3 you get the idea. I made sure the title tag had the keywords I needed and were not spammy. Most of the pages were on pages 1-3 of Google. Since then on about half of the pages I added H1 tag and well the pages have dissapeared down to page 10 - 20. Now a nobrainer would say I was sand boxed but if I create new pages on similar products without the heading tag guess what almost predictable. So my delema now is creating new pages on products that have tanked with the heading tag. Has anyone experienced this or have any comments. The site is over 7 years old.
That's odd. When I redid my page for SEO I added h1 tags, image alt text, bolded a few key words, and modified my title. I jumped from the 150's to the top 20. I know I said I redid my title as well, but I don't think the title change alone could have jumped me that far. *shrugs*
Whats even odder as I have had very good luck with H1 tags. These are all inner pages and not the main home page for the site. Yes based on SEO common sense what you say is or should be the norm! I have no argument on what is considered common practice for SEO. Based on what is considered the norm I thought my pages would jusm form page 1-3 to the first 5 spots for each search term an not get buried!
interesting. I worry more about quality relevant one way links than most on page optimization. But since I use XsitePro the sites are well optimized anyway. It's worth playing with some pages to see how the vary though.
It is interesting you mention quality relavance with backlinks as that is important and I have focused on that more in the last year. XsitePro did not work out too well for me and I have found Joomla works out better for me as far as SEO goes and its free. I just need to find out what the H1 tag issues is.
You may need to wait a little longer. I've noticed that when I jigger with my code(and not add any real content) my SERPs drop off a bit...but they come back after a while. It may be Googles way of sniffing for black hat SEO activity.
It is an interesting situation. I suppose you are speaking about title tag in head, right? Not about title in links. Either way, title in head is crucial.
Title tag in head is what I was refering too. Since my original post the situation is still the same. I may just wait it out and see what happens and continue to add 1-3 pages a week without the H1 tags...
You may be right ... after doing some digging ... I have two H1 Tags. Would that not cause a problem?