Comments on: Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO – Optimized Heading Tags

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:18:19 +0000

Are you trying to make these pages stand out? That is to say, are you trying to optimize the page for a search engine? If not, hold on to your link juice ;)
If the pages are that hot, I would keep the content fresh and the spiders happy.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:17:45 +0000

Good post. Now I was wondering, if I want to create my wordpress content using pages, not posts, is it still possible to have h2 tags? I dont think that subtitles in pages end up being in H2 tags, when I check my source code… (and yes..newbie here ;-)

Thanks

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:40:14 +0000

I don’t think so, Google is really looking our Meta information on every pages. May be its is really deny the Meta tags. But Heading tags are really worth full. Google like that….

By: Stewart Engelman - Internet Domains

Stewart Engelman - Internet Domains — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:06:34 +0000

Hello,

An additional point. I don’t know whether this is true or not, but some SEO experts maintain that implementing sufficient variation in your formatting is important to SEO results. In other words, if a few of your META tags are bolded in your body text, this may help you gain PR. But if the entire page is bolded, then the advantage goes away, since the bolding is considered the standard format for the page by the search engine.

Again, I don’t know if the above is true, and if it is true, it may only apply to certain search engines.

By: Jenn Nickerson

Jenn Nickerson — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:49:02 +0000

Hi Rich,

I tried the span idea and while it did work on the blog’s name, it created havoc with the site in IE (big surprise). The client has done a lot of pasting in content from a Word doc which is full of span tags. I decided to enclose it in just H1 tags, then use the width declaration to separate it into two lines. Hopefully that will work for Google as well as the client!

Thanks,
Jenn

By: nemokami skelbimai

nemokami skelbimai — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:48:46 +0000

great and helpful stuff

By: Rich Staats

Rich Staats — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:42:39 +0000

Yeah mixing the h tags like that is probably not a great idea. I think that you could wrap everything in ‘H1′ tags, and then “the law offices of” in ‘span’ tags and then use the css declaration ‘h1 span’ to reduce the size or whatever. That way the entire name is still concentrated on.

Rich

By: Jenn Nickerson

Jenn Nickerson — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:25:42 +0000

Hi Nathan,

I’ve been asked by a client to fix an issue with how their site’s name shows up in Google searches and wondering if you might have some insight? They want the site to show up as “The Law Office of Michael B. McCarthy” in search results, but, since they also wanted the blog name in the header to show in two different sized fonts, I tried using h3 tags for “the law office of” and then h1 for “Michael B. McCarthy”. (http://michaelmccarthylaw.com). Now, when their site comes up, the top link is just titled “The Law Office of”. Is this due to the difference in the tags used in the header.php?

Thanks,
Jenn

By: Natural SEO

Natural SEO — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:01:31 +0000

Very effective post. Thanks for sharing.

By: Jimmy G.

Jimmy G. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:10:31 +0000

I really never knew that about H1 and H2 headings and how they can really make a difference for a website. It’s actually eye opening. Thanks for sharing that info with us.