More than one H1 on Blog home Page

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by smsinhindi, Jul 15, 2011.

  1. #1
    Wordpress has released its new theme - twentyeleven.
    The interesting thing I found that each post title in this theme is in heading <H1> . Since wordpress is considered best for seo purpose, I don't think why they are making each blog post H1 .
    So if you display 5 post on homepage, then there will be total 6 <h1> heading ( including site name) on home page.
    Is it good ? Or there is going some new trend regarding H1 heading in SEO?
     
    smsinhindi, Jul 15, 2011 IP
  2. jvfconsulting

    jvfconsulting Active Member

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    The only reason to have more than one H1 on your homepage is if you have a TON of copy on your page. H1 tag, then multiple paragraphs of copy, another H1, multiple paragraph of copy, etc....
     
    jvfconsulting, Jul 15, 2011 IP
  3. digitalwebman06

    digitalwebman06 Active Member

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    each heading will be crawled by Google so you will get a good amount of keywords crawled. isn't it good? i think its very good for SEO.
    thanks
     
    digitalwebman06, Jul 15, 2011 IP
  4. thunder9x

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    Well it is better to have single H1 for SEO. But you can have many H1, H2.. So you go to theme > twenty eleven > index.php and edit it and change it to H2. :)
     
    thunder9x, Jul 15, 2011 IP
  5. belgirl

    belgirl Greenhorn

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    According to Matt Cutts from Google you can have more than one H1 tag on a page, but if you overdo, Google will treat it as spam. So its best to only have one H1 tag per page with your keyword and then use h2-h6 tags for further content.
     
    belgirl, Jul 15, 2011 IP
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    hashif Well-Known Member

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    I don"t think its good for blogs that updates automatically..:)
     
    hashif, Jul 15, 2011 IP
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    faysal969 Member

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    Some thing excessive is not good. If your page has many H1 tags, then Google may count it as spam. So, that theme may harm your site's ranking.
     
    faysal969, Jul 15, 2011 IP
  8. smsinhindi

    smsinhindi Peon

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    Its not me, but its wordpress who has released its brand new theme - twenty eleven which has multiple H1 heading i.e. each title of post is in H1 head.
     
    smsinhindi, Jul 16, 2011 IP
  9. lifeplayer

    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    It is not good, it will be better if change them to either H2 or H3 depend on the structure
     
    lifeplayer, Jul 16, 2011 IP
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    Try using other Heading formats like H2 and H3. Too much can be bad.
     
    MikeBuyco, Jul 16, 2011 IP
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    more than one H1 tag is bad for SEO purpose on a single page.
     
    Ashley Sally, Jul 17, 2011 IP
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    I think H1 tag should be used only once on any page. This is the best practice for SEO.
     
    ehuq, Jul 17, 2011 IP
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    Just make a single H1 with your main keyword and put other keywords in H2, H3.. This is good SEO practice :)
     
    thunder9x, Jul 17, 2011 IP