H1 Page Title Tag Placement
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I'm a little confused over the correct area to place a H1 title Tag.
When I look at Wordpress templates and published Wordpress sites, it suggests placing the H1 tag within the header area. However, SEO companies and other well postioned sites place the H1 title tag at the start of the main content area.
What is the correct and/or best practice for placing H1 page title tags?
Thanks Mark
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It doesn't actually help. All this does is bookmark your information for users quickly so they can access pages quickly that they want. I do this quite often when I have a site or page that I want to get to quickly - just a regular bookmark. NO impact on SEO/SEM what-so-ever (but it could in the future if Google added another feature metric/variable to track!)
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Yes, There is no big advantage rather than H1 alone. Just a clickable H1.
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There is no SEO advantage to this IMO. Just plain
Header
will do.
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You generally want to have the
tag at the top of the page, above the content paragraph. Keep it close in relation to the content that is below it also for correlation. Typically, you don't place a
inside the HEADER of the page, but rather the of the site.
Make sure to limit your use of the
to only 1 time on a page. Use other elements of <h2-h4>throughout the page, but again, only use each element for various sections 1 time on the site page. I've worked on clients sites that had 5
tags, 10
tags, 15
and so on. The pages focus was a real mess. It gets a little stretched out, the engines have trouble determining /or narrowing down what and where the importance of what you are trying to say on the page is, thus affecting you negatively in the SERP results because they can't figure it out.
Keep it clean, watch the code on your site, use elements carefully and do not overuse them. Keep this in mind, and you should be good to go!
Cheers and good luck!</h2-h4>
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The h1 tag belongs in the body. It defines the most important heading, the main topic of the page. The h2 tag is for subheads, h3 for sub-subheads and so forth.
What you see in the head is probably the CSS styling for this tag. It describes what the content within that tag will look like.
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There is no optimal position for H1 Tags. But According to Bruce Clay's SEOToolset analysis, H1 should appear before H2 tag.
And I really got proven record when I was working with a websites using Bruce's SEOToolset.
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