Use of H1 tags

[GeXus]

What have you guys found works best. Using H1 multipul times on a page.. or using H1, H2, H3.. etc.. and what if the headlines are the same?

[awall19]

I have been told that multiple H1 tags may make it easier to flag a spam penalty of sorts. I recommend using an H1 at the top and then h2s or h3s throughout the article.

if all are the same then presumably they would be weighted similarly, likely with the one highest in the page code given slightly more rank.

to me it seems somewhat logical for seo stuff that you would usually want to have a main heading and then have a couple subheadings a grade or two below it.

[RonHollingsworth]

You are correct Aaron. I typically do not use H3's though. I stick with H1 near the top with my #1 keyword and then H2's with my second and third. I don't think that H2, H3 and so on have the same weight has an H1 tag.

[manse]

I started web-design using Dreamweaver, consequently I never really came too close to writing html.

As you probably know, DW allows you to simply choose font style in design view and therefore, I never even knew what H1, H2, H3 tags were until reading about them here.

Am I missing a trick by not including H tags on my pages or do the spiders interpret pages produced in this design-view way?

Thanks.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by manse

I started web-design using Dreamweaver, consequently I never really came too close to writing html.

As you probably know, DW allows you to simply choose font style in design view and therefore, I never even knew what H1, H2, H3 tags were until reading about them here.

Am I missing a trick by not including H tags on my pages or do the spiders interpret pages produced in this design-view way?

Thanks.

heading tags allow you to tell the spiders what a page is really about because spiders weigh those parts of the pages in more than the rest of the page. you can almost imagine headers as an extension of the page title.

I make some keyword rich and write some with more focus on the site visitor, but it is easy to use some of them to help boost the page KW density while still allowing you to write most of the text more for humans vice sounding like you are writing for a spider.

search engines may use the words in bold or italics or the like a bit to boost relevancy for your site but they are likely not going to be weighed in as much as a heading tag.

[brickred]

H1 is very Improtant

[pabawn]

you could use either inline CSS or linked CSS to modify your h1 tags.
Dreamweaver MX and MX2004 especially, have this feature.

[alpha3m]

Originally Posted by pabawn

you could use either inline CSS or linked CSS to modify your h1 tags.
Dreamweaver MX and MX2004 especially, have this feature.

Is the H1 weight effected by CSS? Or, do spiders have problems reading H1's with inline CSS or linked CSS?

[Jazzee]

Originally Posted by alpha3m

Is the H1 weight effected by CSS? Or, do spiders have problems reading H1's with inline CSS or linked CSS?

They carry the same weight. Styled or not. Spiders can read them either way.

[alpha3m]

thanks ya jazzee

[arius]

They carry the same weight. Styled or not. Spiders can read them either way.

Jazzee is right.

That's the way we do it at our site and for our customers.