[thelist] A question of semantics and tags

Barney Carroll barney.carroll at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 16:13:40 CDT 2009


The h1 has especial SEO value as it dictates the content of the page. The
whole h1-6 archetype is frought with argument as to how much meaning they
can have - they have no hierarchical validity associations, why are there as
many as/only 6?, etc, etc...

By tradition the company logo or site title is contained within the h1,
although there is also practice of using page-specific, page-distinguishing
headers as the h1, with the generic site title not being of great
importance. w3 says that h1 should to a large degree reflect the title
element.

Multiple h1s are generally believed to be very bad for SEO.


Regards,
Barney Carroll

barney.carroll at gmail.com
07594 506 381


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