after using the seo tools in this forum, i found that my site has no header tags... are these <h1> tags...where would I put them*** in the header*** how long can they be and what should they contain!! lastly, are they essential to gaining decent page rankings with the main search engines*** if I use them, is it <h1> text <h> or something else entirely!
so i put them under the <head> part of the overall header on my forums and also the title page of the front end of my site*** like this: <h1> text </h1> is that correct** also, does it make much difference to use h1, h2 h3 etc etc ...
so i put them under the <head> part of the overall header on my forums and also the title page of the front end of my site*** like this: <h1> text </h1> is that correct** also, does it make much difference to use h1, h2 h3 etc etc ... the front page is weedguru.com and the forum index is in my signature link on this post. can others view the page source, to see if there is anything else ultra important i am missing...and what should i put in the h1 tag...something like..."marijuana forum" or more*** (also, is there a forum on here where i can post looking for advice with using Flash*)
To say they are very important is not entirely accurate. You can still rank very highly with good title tags and well written keyword content. Too many people try to "game" the onsite optimization by using tags when not appropriate. If you have a good css layout then you can use the tags more effectively without making your pages look bad. The reality is this. Make use of well written title and description meta tags. Use the most appropriate header tags when called for then go out and work on links. I rank just fine with some sites that use Bold and Text sizes and NOT Header Tags.
Does google care if you mess with your H1 tags using CSS? You can make your H1 tags tiny, and alot nicer looking than defualt h1 tags, but does this penalize you? I would think it would, since it kind of defeats the purpose of the H1 tag if you make it about the same size of the DEFAULT text on the site, using CSS Also, I don't suppose you know if it would penalize you if you also modified some of the links on your site using CSS as well? For example, making a link nearly invisible, or even completely invisible, by making it the same or similar color as the back ground.
making link invisible by use of CSS or any other thing is illegitimate but i don't think so that using CSS to shrink the h1 text is blackhat. i have used this in my site and even have seen in some very good sites. if google has made changes in its algo to penalize the shrinking of h1 using CSS then i am not aware of it. if anyone knows it, please share it
Wicked! I have got a <h1> tag written into the <head> section of the overall.header of my forum. I assume I need to do the same for the front end of my website, which is html, rather than the php of the forums...Cheers, people! And I hope this helps with pathetic google ranking. The H1 tag I wrote doesn't look too pretty, but I will do a search for editing the font, size and colour of the text. Should be easy enough to find and then edit. I wasn't aware that h1 tags actually showed up on the page through a browser, I thought they just were read by a browser or by crawlers...I am learning stuff now, via these forums at digital point that I should have learned many years ago. And I am surprised, in a good way, by the amount of help readily available by people whose skills make me seem like an ameoba when it comes to coding a website. so...thankyou. its mightily appreciated.
Is there a way of using a header tag which the browser reads, but doesn't print on the browsing window...*** As most people say they are so important, I want to put one on the front end index page but if I use a <h1> tag then the text will show up on the top of the page, which will look poor...It looks fine on my forums, but i want to work out if I definately need them on the index page of the front end, and if so, is there a way of making them invisible to the human but seen by the crawlers***