Header Tags
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Ok so I am writing different pages and the first heading is an H3 just because I wanted to it be a certain size. Then as you see the content, I have an H1 tag.
Example page: http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/acadia-court-Oxford-MS
you can see that "Acadia First" is the first thing you see on the page and it uses an H3 element.
Long story short, my hierarchy is wrong. Does this have any negative effect on my SEO efforts?
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Order of heading tags is important... use CSS to control size & tags other than headings!
Think of a HTML doc as you would any other academic document..
Animals
Cats
Red Cats
Pink Cats
Dogs
Round Dogs
Square Dogs
..you get the idea
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You have links in your menu, that is enough.
as for you hierarchy, you should be ok, as a H1 is what it is, but if you don’t use a h1 SE will look for the first emphasized tag to use as a heading so its not conclusive.
Try using html5 to mark out your page.
I would use the hgroup and article tags.<hgroup class="title">
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</hgroup>
Blah blah blah
It is not sure if SE's are up to date on html5 yet, but they will do so,
make sure on the page specific content is in the article tag
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ah yes. I did this because I wrote a page for every subdivision in my town. I don't really know a better way to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I thought that It was always good to have a link to a page and not have the page just floating on the site with no links. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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There must be 100 links commented out in your code... Here is an example... <a href="[http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/a-southern-place-Oxford-MS](view-source:http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/a-southern-place-Oxford-MS)" class="main"> <span>A SOUTHERN PLACEspan>a>li>
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I'm not sure what you mean by link tags commented out? Do you just mean regarding under my subdivision tabs? Thanks Egol
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The short answer... I don't know for sure.
Clarified answer... At the present time I do not believe that there is a huge difference in how Google and other search engines treats H1, H2 and H3. However, just to have things straight... I would make that
Acadia Court an H1. You can change the appearance using css.
You didn't ask but when I looked at the code of your page I was shocked to see so many link tags commented out. I would be getting rid of those if this was my site.
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