Comments on: How Should I Structure My Heading Tags?

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:16:49 +0000

In reply to Roman.

For me the other way around works good: design with common sense usability in mind. So far *those* are the very tweaks Google has been making. Too many ads? Down vote. Too much crap above the fold/content? Down vote. Keyword stuffing? Down vote.

Same holds true for headings. Common sense tells me my footer isn’t the H1 heading of a page, for example 🙂

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:46:34 +0000

I thins that using H tags in menus is unnatural and could be deemed suspicious by Google. Natural usage works, but one should always have SEO in mind when designing and making headings to make some compromises that are both readable and make sense to human beings while still use keywords etc.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:28:50 +0000

In reply to Dan.

The H1 is the only heading tag that still has some added value.

When a page doesn’t have an H1 another element usually indicates title of the page and it can be used instead.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:37:38 +0000

Interesting point of view but i found that this page doesn’t have a H1 and I know that on every page should be one and only one h1. So, how important is for a page to have and h1 tag and what happens if the page doesn’t have this tag ?

thanks

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:14:33 +0000

In reply to Eric.

Very good point, Eric; can’t agree more.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:51:58 +0000

All else being equal it also provides some formatting that makes the post easier for a user to read.

Eric