What's the impact of # in the main domain page?
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After a little research I did in the Source Code of the root domain page of seomoz.org and searchenginejournal.com , I found that the first one contains no
at all and that the other contains like 10
.
I though that the
was something relatively important on a web page for on page optimisation. Did I missed something?
What's you opinion on the subject?
Thanks for your help!
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I have spent a huge amount of time lately reading a lot of SEO information and have never seen that suggestion made. The closest would be Matt Cutts sharing how he slightly altered his page title from his H1 tag to capture an additional version of a key word.
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If you found some Stephen, I would be really interested to read about it too!
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A quick note that if you're not logged into SEOmoz when you visit the home page you'll find two areas with H1 tags.
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Does anyone have details on this dont match title to H1 thing? Any studies or experiments? I hear it a lot but dont recall seeing anything concrete
Cheers
S
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A H1 tag is still the recommended way by W3 to headline a page:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Use_h1_for_Title
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/headings
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5
I still find that by following W3 recommendations it makes a good step in creating a well optimised page. Obviously you aren't going to rank by having a H1 tag alone, but it will always never harm the page to have a well crafted one. One thing I do recommend is having a different H1 tag to the Page Title.
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The official answer is ideally each page uses one H1 tag. You can use a couple more if it is tactfully done to provide a better user experience.
Some fast official information on this topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgy3Oc9zfOw
I have read from a few sources the H1 tag has been devalued by Google as it was being abused too much. I still use it where appropriate and recommend it's use to others as well. With that said, if you use a div or other means to provide the proper text size and font weight (i.e. bold) you may receive the same effect from SEs. I prefer to play it safe for now and use the tags.
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