Header Tags SEO - How To Use H1, H2 & H3 Tags Properly
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Implementing header tags SEO properly on your website can give you a big SEO boost. Let's optimize your header tags today: missoulaseogeek.com/
In fact, Google and other search engines use the header tags on a web page to help determine what that page is about as well as what terms it should rank for in the organic search results.
So, needless to say, having your header tags SEO dialed in will help you show Google and other search engines exactly what keywords your web pages should rank for.
This will ultimately help boost your SEO and get your pages showing up higher and higher on the organic search results pages.
It's common for people to use header tags to format the font sizes on their website pages but this isn't such a good idea once you realize how Google and other search engines use header tags to help determine rankings.
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SO Helpful and concise. Can't thank you enough.
Glad it was helpful!
Superb Video ! Thanks for Help Misso !
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, it's truly my pleasure to help!!!
This was very helpful, thank you!
Glad you found this helpful!
Thanks for the video. Would they be better off separating those sections that were H2 onto different web pages? Or is it just as optimized being multiple H3s on the one page
Fantastic video explaining Htags for a newbie. You made it concise and clear. Thanks very much, I am now in the process of changing all the ( many ) H2 tags on my website and so on. Can you tell me again how you searched for all the different tags when viewed in page code please? I didnt understand the "Command F"part. Thanks!
I'm glad you found the video helpful!!! All I was talking about is searching for the H Tags on the page like "" for instance. Here's an explanation of how to use that feature on Google Chrome but it's similar for other browsers: support.google.com/chrome/answer/95440?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
Nice work. Needed this.
Happy to hear this!!!
Thanks for making it simple!
Of course, happy to help!
This was great info. Thank you bro.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow now I understand the tags thanks 😊
Of course, happy to help!
A lot of blogs and forum recommend one H1 tag and as many H2 tags as we need to separate into "sections" our content. How would you respond to them? How is the use of H3 different from H2 and why is, on your opinion, better to use only one H2 Tag?
Well, this formula is based in part on my experience and what I've found to work best in most cases is to use one H1 tag, one H2 tag, and have the rest of the titles on the page be H3 tags. At the end of the day though, there is no one size fits all solution when it comes to SEO. This formula is meant to be a guideline to get you close to being in alignment with what Google is looking to see on an authoritative website but I would also suggest testing some different setups. Maybe try using all H2 tags instead of H3 tags on a few pages or posts for a month or two and see how Google responds. If it doesn't go well, you can always change the H tags back.
The same point I had. I think you are right. One H1 is the only condition. H2 - you can have as many as you want.
Good job! Thank you!
Much appreciated, I'm glad you like the video!
can I make something that isn't the title h1? so it ranks for the specific keyword? also is it a good idea to keep h1 or h2 to one word or can it be multiple? thanks
I mean, technically you can make any text h1 or h2 but Google is pretty smart and doesn't like it when you try to manipulate the rankings. So, I would suggest sticking with making the titles of the pages on your site h1, h2 or h3.
To answer your other question, you can use as many words as necessary in your h1, h2, and h3 tags. However, I would suggest keeping your h tags relatively short and to the point. You don't want to stuff a bunch of extra terms in there if you can help it.
Thanks a bunch, nice and short video getting to the point.
I have a question though:
Im using WordPress too, and it allows me to use up to H6, what would the usecase of H4-6 be, if any?
Well, I think WordPress just puts those there to make them available for changing the font sizes of your headers easily but I don't think they were placed there for any SEO reasons.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek i see, thanks : )
Thanks for this video! I’m an Elementor user. If I wanted to change the font size for an H3 title, is that as simple as changing it in the Elementor editor, or do I need to do it in the actual code like you did? Great video!
Yeah, you bet! I haven't used Elementor myself so I'm not 100% sure how they have things set up but I would imagine that you have the ability to change the size of an H3 font right on the page. Otherwise, there should be global options for changing the size of the H3 tags site-wide. Does that help answer your question?
@@MissoulaSEOGeek Yes, that does answer my question! Thank you!
@@naokisonoda-hq Yeah, you bet! I'm happy to help :)
This probably comes way too late, but for anyone else with this problem who sees this comment, here's the answer I've found: from Elementor, go into Site Settings, then Typography. There, you can change everything about how each Htag looks. I hope this is helpful for someone!
Hi thanks for the info, should a blog post also follow same format, so one H1, one H2 and then the rest of titles as H3? Thanks!
Yes, it's the same structure for blog posts as well.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek thanks again very useful info!
@@natwebbcomedy You bet, I'm happy to help!
h3 I'm still confused about it. I understand h2 relates directly to the h1 - but say for example I am writing an article on sneakers, then I break it down by brand, and would matching accessories be and h3? Thanks!
The easiest way to look at it in that case is to focus on getting the H1 and H2 correct and then just make the rest of the headings H3. By getting the first two headings in the right ballpark, the remaining titles should fall into place naturally. So, don't overthink it too much.
what about the headings in sliders of top of a website? do we need to give headings tags for sliding titles too?
It depends on how your website is set up but most websites will use H tags for the slider headers. So, you'll just want to check and make sure yours are set properly.
@missoula seo geek Amazing job on using the easiest form of explanation for people like me who had no clue what these tags are! Cheers from Bangladesh, man!
P.S. Should any and all types of websites follow one H1, one H2 and all should be H3?
Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated! Yes, I would recommend this strategy for any type of website that you're trying to rank organically on Google.
Really helpful for students rather than people
How do you mean?
Great content. You have a new subscriber here! I watched both videos on this. I don't have an H1, and want to change my H2 to an H1. Can I just change the text in the code? Or how do I do that please? TIA.
Oh, so happy to hear this! Yeah, if you have an HTML code editor on your website then you can just change the tags to be tags in the actual HTML code.
Awesome video! What theme do you use for your site?
Thanks! I use the Avada theme for pretty much all my websites.
Excellent explanation, thank you! When I went to "Inspect" and highlighted each paragraph on my products page, I just had one H1 tag (the title). When I went to "View page source" it showed that I had 22 H1 tags. The title was number 13/22. All of the other H1 tags just showed something like: h1,.entry-content h1{ I'm not sure what's going on.
When you do the search on your source page, you'll want to use
Perfect, thank you!@@MissoulaSEOGeek
Thank you man
Of course, it's my pleasure to help!
Does it matter where the H1 title tag is placed on the homepage? Can I put it on the bottom of the home page?
Hi, thanks for your question! Technically, you can place the H1 title tag anywhere on your homepage, including at the bottom. However, for SEO purposes, it's generally recommended to have it at the top of the page. This is because search engines tend to give more weight to what comes first on a page. Moreover, users often expect to see the main title at the top, which aids in user experience. I hope this helps!
I tried editing the HTML and used the same info (font-size: 1.5em) you put in for file size and it never worked. I use pixieset. Does it have to do with the website or how I'm entering in the code?
If you're editing in HTML, then you can just use these tags to create the types of headers explained in the video: www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hn.asp
The font size is mostly just for styling purposes.
WOW! that was super helpful! Does that format help with SEO in 2023?
From my experience, yes it does.
A quick Google search and chat GPT says that adding multiple h2 tags is a good idea. Any thoughts?
It can vary from site to site but the only way to know for sure what will work best for your use case is to test it out and see what happens. You can always update them later if you don't get the results you want to see.
Can I use multiple H1 tags on a page? Let's say I have multiple article tags. Inside each article tag I have a h1 tag. Is it okay for SEO?
Are you talking about like on a blog page where it lists all your articles?
QUESTION: Should the H1 and H2 be on top of the post? OR can they be placed anywhere in the post?
It's best if the H1 and H2 appear high up on the page/post.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek Thank you.
@@leisan5218 Yeah, you bet!
Would you happen to have a video on how to italicize the H1 tag?
I do not but you can always do that using CSS: www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-style.asp
@@MissoulaSEOGeek thank you
@@aminachanae Yeah, you bet! It's my pleasure to help :)
What about the text in the slider? Should that have a tag?
Great question! So, recently Google has started considering the first bit of large text on a page as similar to the H1 tag meaning, the large text in your slider is going to tell Google what your web page is about. That being said, I would suggest making the main text in your slider an H1 and be sure it includes the main keyword you want to rank that page for.
Thanks buddy
Of course, happy to help!
Can we have multiple in a page?
I would recommend only having one tag on each page.
Can you apply the same technique when building HTML website?
Yes, absolutley!
Please can you help me understand the Use proper tags
How do you mean exactly?
you mentioned the rule of thumb of having one h1 tag, one h2 tag and the rest to h3s...but later on you reduced the H2s to 2. Can you please elaborate? thanks
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are asking.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek nevermind I seem to have misunderstood the video hahaha
@@NeganTropy No worries, it's all good!
I have H2's that are highlighted in yellow and orange. What's the difference?
How do you mean exactly?
@@MissoulaSEOGeek nvm I'm an idiot.
No worries.
Can h2 tag come after a couple of h3 tags?
I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a really in-depth understanding of how Google uses H tags. It's much better to have the H1 tag be first, the H2 tag be second, and the rest of the titles on the page set to H3 tags.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek Thanks for your answer. I am new to all this and right now it's so confusing.
@@shantanukumar5002 Yeah, it can take years to learn how SEO works on a deep level. So, just hang in there!
This video save y life
Hahaha glad to hear it!
I have a blogpost like "Top 10 mobiles phones" so the title is the h1. Is it okay not to add h2 tags and just use h3 for the top 10 mobiles phones list?
Yeah, in that specific case the best thing to do is to just use an H1 and have the rest of the titles set to H3.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek okay noted thank you very much. Is it necessary to put at least one h2 tags or having no h2 is okay?
@@teknoy5417 It would certainly help with the SEO if you were able to add an H2 but it's not 100% necessary if you already have an H1 and some H3 tags on the page.
@@PhoenixSEOGeek okay noted. Thank you very much.
@@teknoy5417 Yeah you bet, happy to help!
When I Control F, then type h1. It also search all the code that start with H :(
Try adding a < before the H1 so that it looks like this
I used webpage Maker to build my website and I'm trying to do some of this SEO work but you didn't tell me how to do it????
Are you talking about how to create a Header tag within your website? If so, then I'm not 100% sure that your website platform supports Header Tags. Have you tried reaching out to their support team?
thx
Of course, happy to help!
I thought title tags were the tags you see on the search engine results page, meanwhile header tags are found on the actual page and are usually a title of an article, product, or section. Is this incorrect?
Sometimes the title tag will be the title of the article but in most cases, the title tag will be different from all of the header tags on a page, post, etc.
Many sources claim that the headline structure doesn't play that big of a role if you don't spam h1s, so why deal with it that much?
Well, if you're up against some stiff competition then it's worth getting any advantage that you possibly can. At least in my experience, having properly optimized H tags can make a big difference in rankings.
@@MissoulaSEOGeek Okay, thanks for clarifying!
@@KS-fz7hh Yeah, you bet!
You want one H1 on the whole site or one H1 on each page within the site?
You want one H1 on each page within the site.
You can have more than one H2 tag. Think of the book analogy to understand this: ua-cam.com/users/shortsTQUjfMCx_s8
The link you sent doesn't seem to be working so I'm not sure what you were referencing there but you certainly can use more than one H2 tags. You just want to limit those to maybe 2 or 3 at max from my experience.
Why wouldn't you want more than one H2?
There are some cases where having more than one H2 tag is a good thing but it's on a case by case basis and it just takes lots of experience to know when to add more than one H2 but I've found that limiting to just one H2 tends to work really well across the board. So, to play it safe and not confuse people, I just recommend only using one H2 tag on each page. That being said, the only way to know for sure what will work best in your case is to test having only one H2 tag and then test having more than one H2 tag.
I wish I could read line but line, this is too complicated with too many and tiny letters
You should be able to get the general concept without needing to see line by line.
Is it just me or is the terminology of SEO way too dramatic and actually a lot of what you need to do is fairly basic!
Hahaha I guess it all depends on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go!
You didn't show me how to set the TAGS grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you talked about it but didn't show how to set something to be H1 or H2 or H3 I came here to learn how to set an H1 tag
My apologies, the purpose of this video was to share the overall strategy for optimizing H tags but setting up actual H tags will be different for each person depending on the platform their website was built on. What platform was your website built on?
You can definitely use more than one H2 tag
Just saying!
Helpful video though
Yeah, I would agree with you. I just figured that with a concept that's already a bit technical, it's best to keep it simple for the viewers so that the greatest number of people can benefit from the process. Who knows, I might make a more in-depth version of the video someday...
@@MissoulaSEOGeek Oh I hear you. Didn't mean to be a keyboard warrior. I'm running an SEO training for new content web writers so was getting some inspiration from you!
No worries at all. Hope you were able to glean some inspiration from the video!
Are you speaking to the masses or just people who are already tech savvy and professional technical people? Because if you wanna reach masses perhaps talk in plainer lingo and slow down
I assume that if you know what header tag SEO is, then you probably know how most of this stuff works but you still want to learn about the best optimization strategies for header tags. My apologies if the video was too complicated or fast.