H1 H2 & H3 What does this mean?

[Gerry]

I think not, myself. At least, I wouldn't "penalize" it if I were a search engine. Sometimes you have to use multiple h1's to format your content in a way that looks good and is properly organized.

[waynelong]

I would wait for someone more knowledgeable than myself to chime in but from what I have been reading lately is that they are still important (although not quite as important in terms as SEO as they were) but are still a good way to organize your pages for both search engines and human users.

It makes sense to me that Search Engines would still use these to help them understand what is important on your web page(you are telling them what is important with your tags). It also makes sense to me that you would use these to organize your page for your readers. So......Why wouldn't you use them?

[Maui]

Use it as much for your readers as for the SE's. It becomes an easy way to provide an outline of the content for visitors to peruse (I know I prefer to see some kind of structure rather than just a long block of text).

[bwpatton]

I just went through and created H tags on my REW web page. I would like somebody to review the way I created these H tags and suggest some improvements. My main question is, "can you use multiple H1 tags on the home page?" The reason is that I work within a community made up of a bunch of small cities. I would like the H1 tags on the home page to introduce clients to each city the request that they click at the bottom of the paragraph to go to that cities page.

Thanks,
Brandon Patton

[Gerry]

I see you opted for H4's, Brandon, which looks good. I wouldn't change those.

My own belief is that there's nothing wrong with using a bunch of H1's on any page, as long as it makes sense (multiple topics of equal importance). However, I think most of the time it will make MORE sense to either:

• have a single H1 to describe the single over-arching topic represented on the page, and to use H2's (or other) for each item
• place each item on its own page with its own H1

[bwpatton]

Gerry,

Thanks for the feedback. I will leave everything the way it is for now. Do you know of a way to make some changes to a web page then submit the web page to a SEO grader then make more changes and repeat the process until you learn what results are getting you the most SEO traction.

[Gerry]

No idea! I'm not really involved with SEO much anymore. But I wouldn't advise getting so granular anyway, unless you really know what you're doing. Instead, I would just bull forward, creating useful, relevant content, and tagging it (in the meta content, headings) with great enthusiasm. Then make sure that in the paragraphs, you include industry-specific words whenever you CAN do so without compromising readability.

[bwpatton]

Thanks for the feedback. I just switched my LEC 4 to a LEC 6 so when that goes live I will have to put a lot of time into trying to change around all the content. Although, this new LEC 6 looks like most of the content will be done on internal pages and that the home page is more of directery.