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  • 678648631264
    678648631264 last edited by Jun 24, 2012, 9:09 PM

    No More Than One H1 Tag

    Easy fix

    <dl>

    <dt>Number of H1s</dt>

    <dd>2</dd>

    <dt>Explanation</dt>

    <dd>Best practices for both SEO and accessibility require only a single H1 tag. The H1 is meant to be the page's headline, and thus, multiple H1s are confusing. Consider employing H2, H3 or CSS styles to achieve the same results with text visualization.</dd>

    <dt>Recommendation</dt>

    <dd>Remove multiple instances of the H1 tag, so that only one exists on the page.</dd>

    <dd>I get this error yet it does not tell me how to fix it. I'm not even sure what the H1 tag is?
    </dd>

    </dl>

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    • 678648631264
      678648631264 @MoosaHemani last edited by Jun 25, 2012, 3:33 PM Jun 25, 2012, 3:33 PM

      What the???

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      • MoosaHemani
        MoosaHemani Banned last edited by Jun 25, 2012, 2:17 AM Jun 25, 2012, 2:17 AM

        What is H1?

        Go to the page, right click between the page and click ‘view page source’ on other window will open the code page… on the code page press ‘ctrl+F’ and search ‘

        ’… text between

        and

        is considered to be the tag H1.

        How to fix two H1s?

        I suppose you are using the common HTML… so download the page, open it in the Macromedia Dreamweaver or notepad. And remove the H1 which you think its less important…save and upload the files again.

        Most of the times this hurts the CSS so I would recommend you to consult your designer or developer to do this job for you.

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        • Saijo.George
          Saijo.George last edited by Jun 25, 2012, 2:05 AM Jun 24, 2012, 10:40 PM

          I would not worry about multiple H1 as a major issue .( as long you are not over doing it )

          MattCutts :

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

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          • APICDA
            APICDA Subscriber last edited by Jun 25, 2012, 2:05 AM Jun 24, 2012, 9:37 PM

            This may help.

            http://www.seomoz.org/q/h1-tags

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            • MassivePrime
              MassivePrime last edited by Jun 25, 2012, 2:05 AM Jun 24, 2012, 9:24 PM

              Can you post a link to the page, I'll be happy to tell you how to do it.

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