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Is single H1 tag still best practice?
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Hi Guys,
Is having a single h1 tag still best practice for SEO?
Guessing multiple h1 tags dilute the value of the tag and keywords within the tag.
Thoughts?
Cheers.
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That's just laziness on their part, they should update to have an H1 on every page.
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MOZ site crawl indicated we had missing H1’s as well as the canonical tags on almost all of our pages. We work with a website company that has been building their websites from many years ago, but they have very useful tools for printers. They seem to have everything listed as H2's. I was told it would take a lot of effort on their part to make the H1’s. Are H2's sufficient?
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From what I read here, the use of multiple H1 tags depends on what HTML version you are using. If it's HTML4 or XHTML, only use one H1 per page, but if you are using HTML5 you can have one per section. HTML5 uses the new semantic elements like
<header>and
<footer>to work out the hierarchy, with headings only affecting hierarchy within one of those tags.
Source: https://cloudz.click/community/q/how-will-it-effect-seo-to-have-multiple-h1-tags-on-a-page
</footer>
</header>
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Hi there!
There are some theories that include a single H1 as a best practice.
Although, a few months ago, google said that its just fine to have several H1 tags.
My site's template has multiple H1 tags - Google Webmasters Youtube ChannelOf course, those multiple H1 tags must be correctly used. Google does understand those tags and comprehends whether are correctly used. Try using h2, h3 or other, as long as the content requieres them.
Your principal concern should be creating exceptional content, not having more than one H1 tag.Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR
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