Comments on: Wordpress SEO : Optimize your Wordpress theme headings (h1, h2, h3)

By: Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:51:50 +0000

What an awesome comment about search engines. I'm honestly very stunned that this hasn't really been alleged earlier to such an extent.

By: Car Lazar

Car Lazar — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:52:43 +0000

Very useful article !!!

By: Indian

Indian — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:18:13 +0000

I use a H1 tag with smaller fonts followed by H2 with bigger fonts and have always wondered how it affetc.

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By: Markedsføring

Markedsføring — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:45:15 +0000

Wordpress, Joomla and all other website publishing systems need to enable H1 tags by default. By doing this they might give the search engines a better view of their users websites.

Great article!

By: Guide Media SEO Blog

Guide Media SEO Blog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:38:53 +0000

Just finished our wordpress blog at Guidemediaseo.com and did something similar. We also took an extra step and setup a category.php page to include an H1 tag with all post titles H2's. Take a look at the code and you'll see. Great post.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:17:46 +0000

Fili, I am kind of a newbie to Wordpress but not to technology. I like your explanation of the importance of the H1 tag but I am a bit unclear about the implementation.

Like you mentioned, my theme puts my blog name in the H1 tag everywhere and puts the blog's description in every h2 tag.

Are you suggesting, on each post, to place the title in the H1 tag. Thus, the H1 surrounds the title?

Did I get that right? And what would you recommend changing the H2 title to?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:17:10 +0000

well, yes, I was kind of using PR as a broader more generic way of saying rank and position in the SERPs. Thanks for the suggestion re archives categories. I don't actually have those appearing on my homepage, but your comment has given me an idea on how to get an H1 keyword into it that is soooo obvious.

Thanks!

By: fiLi

fiLi — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:26:48 +0000

PR isn't actually directly related to things like headings. PR drop could be caused by either lost of incoming links (backlinks) or maybe a change in Google's algorithm. I wouldn't worry about that too much, just keep doing what you're doing, keep track of your incoming links, try to get more, and you'll do fine. Headings optimization might, however, affect SERP. My experience shows HO results in higher rankings. Together with your very high PR, with the right SEO, you should be getting the top SERP for most of your keywords. So, as for headings on homepage, H1 shouldn't be repeated more than once, so - like you - I haven't applied those to post titles on homepage (/archives/categories). I would suggest wrapping your blog's (/categories) general keywords around the H1. In your case, I would imagine it's something related to science - just do a simple keyword analysis with Google's/Wordtracker like tools. Good luck.