Importance Of H1 And H2 Tags – Optimize H1 And H2 Tags In WordPress

| August 5, 2010 | Comments (5)

H1 and H2 tags are something which normally produces texts with bigger font size and in most cases appear bold. The h tags goes up to six levels depending on the importance you give to a title.

So why is it important? it is important because search engines take these tags in to consideration when understanding what the particular webpage really talks about and indexes your pages for keywords which are mainly used between these tags. This is a wise move by search engines because it provides it users with better user experience.

Use of H1 and H2 Tags can bring in targeted traffic to your site as well if you use it wisely. I have came across a lot of sites which are not using these tags properly and some times not using it at all. Just make sure all your post and page titles are between h1 tags in your script. Also if your posts contain multiple sections its a good idea to make use of h2 tags for them.

By default most of the wordpress themes get this one right but just to make sure your theme is holding good in terms of the heading tags. Get in to the editor option under appearance section and navigate through singlepost.php and look out for single_post_title(); or and make sure they are within H1 tags or H2 depending on how your theme displays each tags.

You can do the same by navigating through page.php and find the line and ensure it is within the h1 or h2 tags as well. Also you can make use of these tags within your blog posts. Which makes it really useful not only for your users but also for the search engines.

Hope this short article and tutorial helped you a bit on understanding H1 and H2 tags for more information about these tags you can look in to semantic Html . But its really enough if you can know this much and use your tags properly to rank better in search engines for your terms.

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  • http://www.linkbuildingservices.com/ harly

    Nice post i really like this.The heading tags not only help with the organization of your design, but they help with the search engine optimization of your site as well. This post will go over how to use heading tags, how they help with SEO, and how to use them in your design to achieve good SEO, but not distract from the design.Thanks for sharing the nice information.

  • http://ghoulcostumes.org Vijay

    Hi Chakkravarthi,

    Useful post this.

    However, would like to seek your response on the following:

    Is there a way we can create additional keyword rich h1, h2 or h3 tags for a post, if those keywords are themselves not a part of the content of the post?

    Thanks

    Vijay

    • seoguy

      you can create additional heading tags for each posts inside the post itself related to the content, if you are using heading tags inside the posts which are really not related to posts then you are potentially keeping your readers away. I wouldn’t really suggest it.

  • http://ghoulcostumes.org Vijay

    Got it,

    Thanks

    Vijay

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