Hi All Can i use H2 tag before using H1 tag on home page.How crawler see it.is there any negative effect if i use h2 in top 5 lines and H1 in the bottom. Reply suggess
Yes you can, but H1 tags tend to be more important than H2 tags as it usually contains your targeted keywords. For a better optimization, it should be placed above the rest of the content and other tags.
Some webmasters use only h2 and down, and not using H1 at all to avoid too much emphasis on the keywords.
you can use <h2> before <h1> difference between h1 and h2 is that search engine give h1 tags more importance than h2 tags.
I would say it is not logical to use h2 before h1. H tags are not for seo and to plug keywords, they are made to structure content. And to me, you can not have h2 when there is no h1, same for h3 cannot be present if their is no h2. Not sure to what extent you would be penalise for doing so, but in a logical reasonning, and taking in consideration what h tags are for, it seems not ok.