More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?

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Recommends dan · 2013-07 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “If not H1 tags, what can be used?”

Using ten h1 tags will certainly not help your SEO, as they should be used to indicate the header for the page, as covered here: Matt Cutts - More than one H1 on a page: good or bad? [this video] If there are 10 different topics on the same page, you could pick the top one for the h1 tag, and then stylize the other topics using CSS so they visually look like headers... Instead however, you might consider adding separate pages for each topic with links and anchor text for them. That way, each page will be better focused on specific topics and keywords, which will be clearer to visitors so that they can decide which to view, rather than being overwhelmed with ten different topics that might result

Recommends c s h · 2013-11 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Will it hurt SEO if I hide the <h1> tag?”

<h1> is what defines the most important title on your page, and that makes a huge difference for SEO purposes. If you don't like your <h1> size or look you can always change it with CSS. Here is video [this video] where Matt Cutts talks about overdoing <h1> , from there you can see the value.

Recommends Goyllo · 2016-12 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Should there be an <h1></h1> tag in comments/posts section in wordpress?”

Short answer yes change it to h3 or h4 or simply use paragraph or span tags, which is better than heading for comment section. For post section you are free to use h2 or h3. Use HTML tags semantically. This video from matt cutts might help [this video] . . I think your comment section will look's like this: <h1>Comments: Your post title </h1> So, Same text on multiple h1 does not make sense to me .Over optimizing can sometimes hurt your SEO.

Cites Bryson · 2010-07 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “New HTML5 elements and search engine ranking impact?”

Using properly constructed HTML5 will help your rankings, and improve your site's accessibility. Given identical semantics (in a prefect world), it will rank no better or worse based solely on semantics than an HTML4 or XHTML1 site. However, using HTML5 properly will improve your semantics simply by the nature of its design. Google has put a lot of money and engineering effort into HTML5, including launching the site HTML5Rocks.com [LINK] . The more semantically correct your code is, the better your rankings will be for the subject of your site. Additionally, if properly constructed, HTML5 makes your site faster to render and generally smaller to download, improving page speed (which was rec

Cites Frodik · 2011-06 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “SEO regarding using separate <h1> tags for the logo and website name”

It is very common saying, that <h1> should be on page just once. Matt Cutts (Google engineer) is explaining it right here: [this video] So if it is logical for your page to have more just use them - no real penalty for this. Unless you have tens of <h1> s on page and nothing else. That could be little suspicious ;-)

Cites Zhaph - Ben Duguid · 2011-11 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Blog name and tagline only in the footer, any SEO problems?”

If it's in an H2 at the bottom of the page, and indeed repeated on every page, it will be considered lesser content. With regards to HTML5 support, last time I looked into this (back in July 2011) [LINK] , the most definitive answer I could find on HTML5 support was this one: Does semantic html5 matter to google yet? [LINK] Where the key point made by a Google Employee in October 2010 was: In general, we work hard to understand as much of the web as possible, but I have a feeling that HTML5 markup is not yet as widely in use (and in use correctly) that it would make sense for us to use it as a means of understanding content better. As HTML5 gains in popularity and as we recognize specific ma

Cites bobek · 2012-01 · Stack Overflow · on “<h1> tag on home page?”

Per google, It's not the best practice to hide content of the page. The text that describes your image is an alt tag, and this should be used for that purpose, not hidden h1 tag. Here : [this video] [LINK]

Cites Su' · 2012-02 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “How many H2, h3 h4 are the maximum recommended?”

i know that only one h1 is recommended This was never really true, just some people's opinion. That was due to people trying to game SEO: If you only have a single H1 in a document, it's important as a result of being the only one, not because it's supposed to be the only one. And if you're using HTML5, it's really not true [LINK] , with the introduction of the section element and detailed specification of the outlining algorithm. (Note: that post is a bit old; I think the article element also has the same effect. Either way, you get the idea.) Here's Matt Cutts [this video] saying basically, "If it makes sense to have more than one, fine, just don't go nuts." Slightly interesting: that video eve

Cites Ilmari Karonen · 2012-04 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Overuse of <h1> was bad, but now, with HTML5?”

According to Matt Cutts, Google doesn't penalize sites just for having multiple tags [this video] . It's possible that their indexers may be programmed to detect egregious overuse of <h1> — like, say, having all your text inside <h1> tags — and to penalize such pages, but I've seen no direct confirmation of that. It is very likely that their human staff, if alerted to such a page, will see it as abuse and act accordingly. I don't work at Google and I've no idea how their algorithms actually work (beyond what can be inferred from observations and posts by folks who do know), but if I were to write their heading handling code, I'd allocate a certain amount of "heading weight" per page and divide th

Cites RvD · 2012-07 · Stack Overflow · on “html5: css styling: <ul> <li> vs <p> for column of links”

@e-sushi Absolutely not. If your doctype is set to HTML5, there's no problem to use multiple or tags. See this video by Matt Cuts: [this video] Did you downvote my answer for that reason ?