My site has the h1 tag around the blog name in the header.php of my site (so it is the only h1 on every page) I was wanting to change this to a h2 and the content title as the h1 on single pages. How or where would I move the h1 blog name title to outside of the header.php. I have index.php, single.php, and archive.php Thanks! PS: If you need code on where everything is I can post that as well.
...i'd assume your index page. your asking for a complete solution without posting a whole lot of info. the easiest way to answer is... "figure it out"
Well "just figuring it out" doesn't seem to help for the question I asked, but I can just move the div for my blogs title into the index page and then on the single pages put an h1 tag around the page title? Thanks for the help! This is a forum to ask questions and get Answers right?
It doesn't make a big difference, really. These tags are not so much important for SEO in today's market, so you can place them anywhere. Just don't "overdose", that's all.
I would definitely move the h1 to the post title - or something specific to the topic of that page, and not the blog name. Your index could use the blog title as the h1. Furthermore I would use the h2 structure for the next most relevant terms, and leave the blog name out of the heading structure - the search engines will figure that out.
You can use H1 tags on the main title or header, this is only a presentation fact. They have not to much importance on SEO, it only represent a small portion of search engine optimization.
Wrapping <h1> (and <h2>s) around links to other pages IMO is generally a bad idea for the typical web site. It's common to do so on blogs... lots of themes do it... but I don't think it is semantically correct. Header elements are meant to describe and structure the content of the currently page, NOT to highlight links to other pages. But blogs are different than traditional web sites. The <h1> should describe what the content of the page is about... the overal "theme" of the page... and there should be only a single <h1> per page. In general, the <h1> should target the same keyword phrase as the <title> element... but can contain a few more "fluff" words to make it more interesting or marketable. So IMO a "good" blog theme will use <h1>s as follows: But that's just me... Thesis is the ONLY blog theme I've found that comes close to what I expect as far as header element usage and even it's not perfect. But it's an awesome WP theme.
In my own experiences, you should include your main keywords in H1 tags for every pages. Have a nice day,
Thanks guys... I'm gonna attempt to modify my header and add everything from the header down and see if that helps...
There should be only 1 H1 tag in a page, and it should have your main keyword. It should be the page title.
lol ok well it is going to be a little bit more of a project than I first had planned. When changing the h1 to h2 or h3 the title in the header messed up and the fonts were too big for other things. I'll play around with it and see if I can get it figured out. Thanks a lot for everyone who posted! If anyone has free time and wants to help out just pm me.
Every page should have different h1, h2, and h3. You can use CSS to format h1, h2 and h3 tags like change the font size, color and etc...
Ya I went in and changed the blog name to h2 and the title of posts to h1 and it caused some havoc so ill go through and run it on a local server before I implement it I guess
I prefer this type of page structure.. h1 - title h2 - main point p - content h3 - sub points/heading p - content