h1 tag

  • teeny

    (@teeny)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    It seems wordpress creates an h1 tag that is repeated on every page of the site/blog, so if your site’s name is happy dogs, every page of the site will have an h1 of happy dogs. I have read that SE’s in general like to see different contented header tags, different titles etc on different pages.

    How can I make a unique h1 on each page?

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Well, maybe SEs don’t read what you’ve read.
    I have a blog called [h1] Development Blog. If you google for that you get on the first place WP’s development blog, and I am not even on the horizon. I guess because there are hundreds with the same name.
    However, I have another blog with the [h1] title De Culturis Mundi, and if you google for that I will come up #1.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I was referring to more competive keywords as determined by overture.

    Anyone rank for anything competitive with their blog that uses the same h1 on every page?

    Its illogical – why would you have the h1 header tag the same on every page? It is suppose to describe the uniqueness of the page.

    Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    WordPress is designed to be a general-purpose blogging tool. Fine-tuned SEO is not something that all users need or want.

    Having said that, there is nothing stopping anyone creating a theme that doesn’t use the <h1> tag for the blog name in the header.php.

    Read up on themes in the Codex for ideas…

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, I was looking at that, but then you have a lot of h2’s as headers of the actual posts wiithout there first having been an h1.

    I’ve been checking out some seo related blogs and many do seem to use the same h1 repetively, so maybe its not a problem.

    skippy

    (@skippy)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    The Codex

    Themes, Designing_Themes_for_Public_Release might be helpful.

    And Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress is our current best document on the topic in which you’re interested. You’re welcome to contribute to that, to help others.

    Thread Starter teeny

    (@teeny)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    It seems the people ranking well using the same h1 repetively are not linking to the homepage with it. So maybe it just an issue of a type of overoptimization penalty – having too many of the same keyword links pointing to the homepage.

    Like this guy with his blog who posted:

    http://www.makingcashontheweb.com

    You can’t find his site even if you search that exact phrase in quotes:

    making cash on the web (google)

    that is not a hard phrase to rank on and his pr is good

    my guess is that he linking to his homepage with those keywords in the h1 header and is getting some sort of penalty

    I don’t know

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