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Use your H1 tag effectively

Friday, September 01, 2006

The H1 tag is designed to tell the page topic. As the text on this tag describes your page content, search engines considered this tag as your page title and they give more weight to terms designated by this tag. Also note that use of many <H1> tags may dilute the importance of your page and cause problems in evaluating pagerank of your site.

By default <h1> tag is realy big and may not suit to your page layout. But you can use CSS to define the format of <h1> tag so that it fits in with your overall design. See some examples below:

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h1 {font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Times New Roman; font-size: 16pt; color: #000;}
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h1 {margin:0px; padding:0px; font-size: 16pt;}
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h1 {background-image:url(/images/image.jpg);margin:0px; padding:0px; font-size: 16pt;}
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Some tips:

1) Use <h1> tag only once in a page
2) It should be at the top of your page
3) Avoid using class attribute within the <h1> tag (eg: <h1 class="exmp">your header</h1>)
4) Avoid graphical titles, use all six header tags instead
5) Avoid use of other tags inside the <h1> tag (eg: <h1><span class="text">your header</span></h1>)

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Comments:

Lauren, Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Is this accurate (regarding points 3+5)? I don't think it is... I believe that search engines skip over semantically written HTML (e.g. classes and markup within the <h#> tags). Do you have any documentation supporting this? I know this article was written some time ago, but this is an issue that I am trying to get a concrete answer about and cannot seem to find much at all, just a lot of speculation.

If you're still maintaining this site, I'd love to hear your take on this.

Cheers!

seo header tags, Saturday, March 27, 2010

Seo header tags is the major part in seo. It is recommeded to use atleast one h1 tag in the page. And if you use that heading tag for the targetted keyword. The page will get optimized quickly. This is an important factor in onpage seo.

michael, Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hi There,Header tags (H1, H2, H3 …..) are the second most important onpage SEO factor that you can use to get better SERPs. Search Engines still(with so much of the algorithm based on backlinks) give decent importance to the Header tags and having your target keywords in them can do a lot of good.
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