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Rankings plummeted when I changed H1 tags to match the title, can I recover my rankings by reversing the changes?
Your h1 is likely not the culprit, but let's find out
First of all, I'd wait about 2 weeks before doing anything. Google just finished rolling out their November spam update. SERPs are a bit volatile ...
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Which one is the correct way to use h1 tag?
You're going to run into duplicate <h1> tags across other episode pages if the <h1> only includes creative work name.
Speaking of semantics, why are we using <div class="header&...
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My site title or blogpost title, which should be h1?
The blog post title should be H1, as it's the most important piece of text on the page. You'll mostly want people to be able to find you through that one title.
You can ofcourse add your name as the ...
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Does having a <span> tag around a portion of a word hurt SEO?
Using a span like that does not hurt SEO, however there is no reason to do it when the ::first-letter pseudoelement exists. You can do the following to style just the first letter without messing with ...
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What is the optimal length of the H1 and H2 for a good SEO?
There is no optimal length, it depends on the content of your page, but usually, H2 tags are longer than H1 tags because that they describe the subheadings regarding H1 and it's better to use H1 to ...
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Is there any SEO benefit for the h1 of a post to contain a hyperlink?
It's used for sharing links easily. There are no SEO benefits.
Here in stackexchange, you can see h1 tags and hyperlink together, because it is easiest to copy paste when someone want to reference ...
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H1 tag word with two styles
Search engines should understand it as a h1 level heading: Something different.
Use of the <span> element in this example would appear to be proper.
The HTML <span> element is a ...
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H1 followed by H2 without text among the titles afflicts the SEO?
These h1-h4 headings represent the logical heading structure which means there is nothing wrong, You can have a main heading and it can immediately follow it with subheading to categorize your ...
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SEO: h1 & h2 - what should go into them?
I would have to slightly disagree with Simon Hayter's response. HTML markup plays an important role determining the structural hierarchy of the webpage information. Also helps determine the website ...
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SEO - Should my business name be my H1 tag?
I think you're confusing organizing an individual page vs your site. H1, H2, etc, are used to structure/outline your page's content. It tells search engines how your page content is organized, and ...
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SEO: h1 & h2 - what should go into them?
I'd personally go with something like <span>, <header> or <div> but there's no right or wrong, or better in terms of SEO.
You are not going to see much difference in any of my ...
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What should be the right h1 tag?
If you care about semantic HTML and the document outline, it makes sense to use h1 for the logo (assuming that the logo represents the site name).
Why? See the next three steps.
1. Without headings
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What should be the right h1 tag?
Yes, remove the h1 tag from the logo, a common error is to use it just to use its styling but it has no sense from a semantic point of view.
An h1 element represents the heading with the highest rank ...
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Do you need to place an 'h1' into a 'p' tag in order to style it so it won't hurt your SEO?
I've got lot's of H1 tags styled directly by css on lots of websites and pages rank on the first page of the SERPs without issue. I've had an SEO professional I respect tell me he styles his H1 tags ...
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Does using too many heading tags (h1s, h2s, and h3s) cause SEO problems?
On my perspective, I don't think Google imposes a strict rules on the number of heading tags to use in a page. There are also websites that use heading tags (h2/h3) for subheadings on longer content - ...
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H1 tag solutions for the main page
Dont worry about forcing the H1 to be the company name. Google will do just fine deducting this from the content, domain name, and page title. H1 should define content. Additionally make sure to only ...
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Does having a <span> tag around a portion of a word hurt SEO?
Yes, this is ok and Search engines would see the text as "Hello".
Reason: Drop caps, Websites likes NYC.com uses drop caps, drop caps needs special CSS codes without div, span or class drop caps are ...
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Multiple H1 tags in blog, category, tag page?
I think it's no more a problem to have multiple h1 tags on one page! I have searched a lot and found:
The number #2 in Google with a heavy keyword like "Men Fashion" is using 2 h1 tags on the same ...
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Is it bad for SEO to use CSS to hide the H1 tag for mobile visitors?
The standard practice for showing h1 tags on large resolution screens (PC) while hiding h1 tags for mobile devices is to use CSS in a way similar to as follows:
<head>
<meta name="viewport" ...
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Duplicate h1 on single post page, blog page and category pages in WordPress
No, it won't. Google knows that this kind of issue happens and they can read the content of the page visually too, so you shouldn't have any problem.
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Can I use H1 with logo alt text or font size zero if I don't have a good place on the page to show big text?
While H1 used to be a major ranking factor, this is now no longer the case. Check out this article:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/h1-headings-for-google/406720/#close
Some of the relevant copy:
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From a SEO perspective is <h1><div>PAGE TITLE</div></h1> the same as <h1>PAGE TITLE</h1>?
Since you already know that unnecessary and bad nesting is not recommended, the answer to your question is given below.
Yes, they're same. No matter how many elements you used within h1 to further ...
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Should H1 tags on all pages in a section of the site be the same?
I'm not sure if your asking about two different alternatives/solutions, or simply identifying two separate pages. But maybe this will help.
Hx tags are intended to act as a content outline, helping ...
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Should H1 tags on all pages in a section of the site be the same?
Hx tags are crucial for structuring your content, serving as indicators for search engines and website visitors about content hierarchy and relevance. The H1 tag, in particular, is a powerful ...
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Need advice on SEO multiple H1 tags
Doing what you suggested here.
I was thinking, it might be better to have a special
top-of-page-include just for the home page. Have that H1 tag there
only. The other pages would just have that line ...
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How to avoid that H1 tag is used for SEO, "fake" H1 with CSS
I can't give an answer without look at the site, but if this is only on the homepage, then you shouldn't worry because this should only be your brand keywords - then H1 doesn't hold so much value from ...
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SEO: Can multiple pages have the same h1?
Let me guess... You are using a template? [insert cheese eating grin]
Template designers very typically use the h1 tag for static design elements in the header when they should not too. This is poor ...
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A logical usage of heading tags and SEO
Headings (H1, H2, etc) play no part in ranking a website and having duplicate ones won't get you penalized - Google uses them to understand the content and how it is organized in the page, so having ...
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My site title or blogpost title, which should be h1?
I always recommend that the h1 tag be an expansion of the title. The title is limited by the number of characters (45-55 or as long as 65) to be effective as a SERP link while the h1 does not have the ...
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