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Questions tagged [heading]

For questions about headings and the corresponding HTML elements (h1-h6).

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Anchor tag inside

or

inside anchor tag: which is better?

I am trying to use

tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem. Title is hyperlinked. Case 1:

xyz

case 2:

xyz

 Which one is better in terms of SEO?
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H1 vs H2 vs Other for website title/logo and SEO

It is a common practice for front-end developers to put the website title or logo in H1 tag and the title in H2. But most of the time the title of the page/article is more important because it carries the content value. So my question is what is the…
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Is it bad practice for SEO to use in header elements?

For making a user friendly website, I have to use some of Font Awesome fonts in elements like this:

Performance

In fact, this is a review article.…
Amirreza Nasiri
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Will it hurt SEO if I hide the

tag?

My pages look better without a heading title. So I don't really want to use a heading, but I don't want to leave

out. Is hiding the element an option? Will it hurt SEO?

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- Semantic impact vs. SEO impact

There's a lot of debate over the architecture of heading structure in html5. After reading various articles, I've come to three possible architectures that make logical sense to me, but I'm unsure which is the actual proper method of approach. I'll…
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Does not using

in pages adversely affect SEO?

My company's website uses page templates that don't include an

element anywhere in the page. The main heading, as seen by the user, is actually an

element and the company logo (linking to the homepage) simply sits in a hierarchy of
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How important are headings in SEO

I have a website that sells music artists posters. Each artists has a page containing a small bio, and a list of posters we are selling representing the artist. Currently our HTML looks like that

{Artist name}

bio

Posters

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Do heading tags out of order penalise SEO?

I have always been in the belief that headings should always be in order - ie a h2 comes before a h3 but after a h1, unless it's within a separate section, then you can go back to a previous heading. However, we have just teamed up with an external…
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Is using H2s instead of H1s a big deal?

Basically, the way the development of a site I am working on has happened, virtually all pages use H2 instead of H1 as the "root" title (and then H3-5 are used appropriately). Since Google pays such special attention to headings as part of…
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H1 in bread crumb bad for SEO?

The design of my website looks good, but trying to put a main big heading at the top doesn't look as nice. But I know how important a H1 tag is for SEO , after all it is the main heading describing the page the visitor is on. That being said, I…
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H1 Tag on Logo in Header

So I have a theme that has my Logo as an H1. The logo itself is an SVG file. I am curious if this is bad practice for SEO purposes. My audit shows 2 H1 tags on my pages due to this and I am curious if I should take out the H1 tag from my logo in my…
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Can it be a harm to Google SEO if I will insert
inside

?

Can it be harm for my site in manner of SEO if I will insert BR tag inside H1 tag?

keyword1
keyword2
keyword2

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Rankings plummeted when I changed H1 tags to match the title, can I recover my rankings by reversing the changes?

I recently changed a lot (most?) of H1 tags on my site to match the page title. Then my rankings plummeted. I'm now on page 5. I then learned that matching title and H1 tags may be considered over-optimization by Google. So I changed all the titles…
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Can I use numbering to decorate headings for readability in CSS without hurting SEO?

I attached the file. When designing(decorating, styling) h1, h2, and h3 tags for SEO, I am worried. These h tags form a certain hierarchy. For example: h1-h2-h3 (title1 title2 title3) h1-h2-h2 (title1 title2-1 title2-2) h1-h2-h3-h3 (title1 title2…
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Same text for

and

What do you think about having the same content for H1 and H2 tag in the article? It seems like keyword stuffing, right? Example:

Bananas Musa × paradisiaca

Bananas Musa ×…

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