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how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
Old 04-05-2007, 09:19 AM how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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As the title says.

I'm redesigning at site, and I was wondering how much Google and other search engines use the headline tags. And is there any other tags Google likes more than other?

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Old 04-05-2007, 11:31 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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In news paper there is only one headline and multiple sub headlines. Same applies to SEs. Only one H1 and other Hx tags according to content. Google likes <title> more than other <tags>

May be this helps Ranking Factors
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Old 04-05-2007, 03:22 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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so the best way is to put a <title></title> around image names and stuff like that?
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Old 04-05-2007, 03:39 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Well, you could try it, but a page can only have one title. Your web browser will pick the last one, and we don't really know what Google will do.

It sounds like you're going about this the wrong way. You don't just throw tags around keywords you want to the search engines to rank you for; the Hx and title tags all have visual properties, and when you need a particular one to get that effect is when you use it. Design your pages for the people who will read them, not the search engines.

The header tags put the text inside them on its own line, as if there was a <br /> tag before and after them. Which makes them great for actual headlines, but will break a paragraph if you try to <h2> a keyword. The idea is to briefly describe what the paragraphs that come next are about in a heading, so a user can scan your page quickly and decide what to read. Because of all that, Google gives extra weight to text in Hx tags.

What it sounds like you're trying to do, optimize for a few particular keywords in your text, is usually accomplished in two basic ways: on-page optimization ( what you're doing ) would mean including a keyword or two in your title, having an h1, some h2s, and so on, that might have a keyword in them. Not the same as in your title, mind you. The second is off-page optimization, where you collect links pointing back to your site with your keywords as anchor text. ( Think: <a href="#">anchor text</a> )
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Old 04-05-2007, 03:39 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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NO!!!

there is only ONE title on a page

Think about this very very carefully.

If every piece of text is exactly the same on your pages, how does anyone (especially a search engine) work out what you want to emphasise??????


Make your pages for USERS NOT search engines.

take note, how I ingeniously emphasised some words to get over a point to you. Well it's just the same for SEs, use the various structural & emphatic HTML elements (headings, bold, italics, etc) as they are meant to be used and it will also work well for search results. Abuse them and you will come unstuck at some point in time.
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Old 04-05-2007, 03:41 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Old 04-05-2007, 03:46 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Old 04-05-2007, 04:06 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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ah I totally forgot that the <title> is in the head and not a tag used in the body I read somewhere that it would be better to have the title like this: imange_name | domain.com instead of the other way around. Is that true or?
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Old 04-05-2007, 04:54 PM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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I don't think you need your domain name in the title. People will know they're on your site from the consistent design and the address bar, while Google will rank you well when someone searches for your domain. So I don't see any real benefit, and on the other hand, it'll make the browser more likely to cut the title off mid-word.
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Old 04-06-2007, 07:35 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Putting your site name in the title element is good for branding
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:30 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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google pay attention to Your H1 tag than other texts

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Old 04-09-2007, 05:09 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Wrong!!

There is only ONE HTML element that can be shown as important to SEs and it's not the header elements.
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Old 04-09-2007, 06:09 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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In my opinion the most h1,h2,h3,strong and b are very imporant for GOOGLE optimizing. The most important slogans should be inserted into those tags. Ideally, all page text should be inserted into those tags but it would be treated by GOOGLE as prohibited methods and domain would probably get banned.
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Old 04-09-2007, 07:07 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Ideally, all page text should be inserted into those tags but it would be treated by GOOGLE as prohibited methods and domain would probably get banned.
NO IT WOULDN'T

but it would be a totally pointless exercise See post #5
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Old 04-09-2007, 09:40 AM Re: how much is h1/h2/h3 used by google?
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Why not ask Google about it
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...h-engines.html
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=35769
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