Ecommerce site Header tag compulsory to follow till h6?
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Hello Experts?
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Header tags for homepage, category, product pages is it required to be have from h1 till h6? If No...then w3c validator will give me Warning and it will never Pass my site so?
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Do google say h1, h2, h3..etc should be in sequence only? As per my site design I cannot define h1 always on top it can be after h2 or h3 so?
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h1 can be only 1 for per page but it is fine h2, h3 etc multiple for same page?
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At listing page to give all 30 products names as h3 is fine or it is not correct way?
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For ecommerce site what is the best header tags you suggest? I mean till h3 is fine or h1 also fine?
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Do header tags helps google in crawling ? or for ranking purpose? or header tags should be best for blog not for ecommerce site?
Thanks!
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Hi Igor,
Thanks for your great response. I do have query for point no.4 Header tag as per me it's describe header of the page so at product list page I list 30 products so giving 30 product name as h3 is fine? My site is ecommerce not blog so ...
Thanks!
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1) Header tags for homepage**, category, product pages is it required to** be have from h1 till h6? If No...then w3c validator will give me Warning and it will never Pass my site so?
The only requirement is a unique H1 on every page, the rest (h2, h3 and etc) if necessary.
2) Do google say h1, h2, h3..etc should be in sequence only? As per my site design I cannot define h1 always on top it can be after h2 or h3 so?
Not in sequence but properly nested. It means that H3 comes after H2, not H1. And H4 only after H3, not after H2 or H1. But you can use several h3's or h2's in a row.
Here's an example:
H1 Heading (My favorite cars)
** H2 subheading (Porsche 911) **
** H2 subheading (Nissan Nismo)**
** H3 (Nismo GT-R)**
** H3 (Nismo Z)**
** h4 (Z 350)**
** h4 (Z 370)**
** H3 (Nismo Juke)**
** H2 subheading (Mazdaspeed)**
** H3 (Mazdaspeed 3)**
** H3 (Mazdaspeed 6)**
** H2 subheading (Toyota AE-86) **3) h1 can be only 1 for per page but it is fine h2, h3 etc multiple for same page?
as many as your structure requires as shown above.
4) At listing page to give all 30 products names as h3 is fine or it is not correct way?
If preceded by h2. if not, use H2.
5) For ecommerce site what is the best header tags you suggest? I mean till h3 is fine or h1 also fine?
H1 is mandatory. Next use H2, next H3 if necessary
6) Do header tags helps google in crawling ? or for ranking purpose? or header tags should be best for blog not for ecommerce site?
Yes, improves the crawl rate and lets google better understand the content of your page.
Thanks!
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Hi,
This whiteboard Friday will be really useful to answer your questions.
Rand says "I'd say H1 and H2 are best practices, but they are not going to transform or massively help your rankings"
Basically, from a user point of view, always have a H1 to tell them what the page is about. H2s help to break up the content to define section titles etc... all others? I'm not personally fussed by them as they don't add much weight in terms of SEO but I do use them from a customer point of view to help break up the text where appropriate.
Always put your H1 at the top - it just makes sense that you're going to name what the page is about at the top.
When pulling through to a page listing, I'd not add in any heading styles to be honest, else you could have a lot of H3s etc. Definitely don't have more than 1 H1 on a page... ever.
Start by thinking more about what your customers want to see and what would make their journey easier than trying to appease Google. What makes a customer happy should make Google happy. Google want you to have a good quality site.
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