On-page SEO Tip: Header Tags

To promote my e-book, I will be providing tips related to on-page search engine optimization from time to time.

Today's topic is header tags.

Here is an overview courtesy of HTML Code Tutorial.

Each header tag indicates the relative importance of each section it is heading: <H1 ...> is for the major sections of your document, or as the one header to the entire document.  <H2 ...> is for the secondary sections of your document, etc.

Basically, you can think of the header tag as being similar to a newspaper's headline.

 

To help optimize your pages using header tags, keep these three rules in mind:

• Each page should have unique header tags related to the content on that page.
• Header tags should contain important keywords, with the most important keyword(s) appearing the H1 tag and descending in importance from there on.
• Don't use more than one H1 tag.

  

The graphic on the right, courtesy of Net Mechanic, visually displays how header tags
function.
The source code for this graphic would be:

<h1>H1</h1>
<h2>H2</h2>

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Comments

[Craig Rentmeester]

Hi Lesli,

The title tag is automatically formatted to be the H3 tag and the blog name and description are automatically H1 and H2 tags respectively.

View the page source on my blog to see the code.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Craig

[Lesli]

Very helpful - I am wondering if, using typepad, you had to manually add those???