h1 h2 blog post SEO — basic step.
The very principal thing that you will want to accomplish once you are starting a blog is to optimize your site first, before you promote it.
This way, you can be sure that all of the content on your blog is search engine optimized.
First step would be, doing keyword research, you can use free tool such as google keyword analysis or wordtracker, even Google instant to see which keywords are mainly to be searched by internet browsers that can be potential to capture people which are interested in your blog.
First thing comes first, you are going to need to apply On-page SEO (I have posted, SEO tips 2011), taking care of the importance of h1 h2 in your blog’s content.
h1 h2 are heading 1 and heading 2 tags in html programming language. It is like title and subtitles, showing how important that words for Search engines bots.
Always take a look whether you have h1 h2 in your content.
Checking and editing our blog’s content is very important before we publish it. I suggest this, because of my own experience, i had very “bad” contents in the past, and i wish i did know about this long time ago.
Make sure at least you have h1 h2 tags in your post or article, which contains your keywords.
I am using this wordpress seo plugin which is checking automatically, if i don’t those h1 h2 tags in my post, so i can make it nearly perfect in SEO. (see the screenshot below how this plugin check those tags for me)
Not just the wording text, the images that you use in the article should be search engine optimized too. How can we do this? Firstly, rename the image file name to have your main keyword.
After that, you should compress or optimize the image size first, before uploading them to your server. Remember your server is your website storage, more files = less space.
Deep linking between your web pages should be done as well if you want to improve your position in search engines result pages (serps).
For deep linking,I suggest you to have related post and breadcrumbs navigation (that is usually displayed ‘you are here/about/address/’), this will link between one page to another page inside your blog.
For breadcrumbs, you can use yoast breadcrumbs plugin, or adding the code manually. (related posts: Adding breadcrumbs without plugin, and breadcrumbs in Thesis theme)
For related post, i recommend you use related post plugin, like YARPP or adding the code manually (tutorial how to add related posts without plugin and Thesis related posts).
Now if you care about your blog’s PageRank (PR) you should always check about your outbound links. These links are links when you put another website’s link in your post. To be safe, i use this SEO plugin which reminds me if i forgot about nofollow link in my post.
Why we should use h1 h2 header tags
The advantage of using wordpress blog is that it has free SEO plugin, like All in One SEO, or Platinum SEO (list of my best blog plugins) to add meta tags to wordpress blog automatically, without adding the codes.
About adding h1 h2 i am using this plugin to help me checking while i am writing post, whether i have h1 h2 heading tags. Yes, We should use h1 h2 header tags, because they will “tell” search engines bots what your website’s content all about.
Basically when you put h1 h2 header tags containing your keyword phrases, it helps and show the bot how well organized is your website.
It will make easier for them to render your content’s topic, and this will improve your ranking in serps.
Have you make your site visitors and search engines friendly? h1 h2 best practice to always check.
Hi Kimi, besides the seo benefits of use the H1 and H2 tags, they are just a good idea to use because it helps break up your content and makes it easier on the eyes to read.
I am using the seopressor on one of my blogs I have to say its a very helpful plugin. Thanks for sharing,
Larry
Larry!
Very true, easy to read is very important in a blog.
Thanks for visiting!
Hello, great post but I wanted to ask what happens when a site like mine has more than one h1 and h2 tags when using that plugin. If you look at my page and right click and view source, I have two h1 and h2 tags on the main page and im using thesis, do you know what I should do to fix this?
Thanks for your response in advance
Hi, Jason,
I checked your blog, I did not see two h1 tag?
Kimi.
I believe most wordpress themes use the h1 tag for the title. It also does not look good in most themes I have used if you then add another h1 and even h2 tag in the body of the text. Too many headings. I do use the h3 tag as a heading within the body of the text. Again this is a bit of a grey one.
Another uncertain for me is the nofollow on links. I beleive it should be used with caution. This attribute was introduced for anti spamming. You will notice that all the links on your comments have the nofollow attribute in the link html, this is to deter spammers and for the ones that don’t pay note and are legit commenters it won’t affect your blog ranking. However I do beleive that a link to a good ranking site, specially an authoritative site can actually have a positive effect on your ranking! I have read some articles from Google which do infer this and I have seen evidence of it from others webpages. !!
So as far as adding nofollow on all your links you are basically saying that you have put a link to that site but you are not placing any weight on it!! I suggest you use with caution !!
Cheers 🙂
Thanks for explaining the importance of Heading Tags.
Do you have to install some sort of specialist plugin to allocate your keyword to the h1 tag? I thought it was just the blog title or post title. Looking at a keyword research program it confirmed my keyword was not optimized for h1 tag although I have it in the blog tile and/or post. Bit confusing, so please enlighten me, thanks.
Hi Azlan,
Yes, I have the plugin to check this, although you can do it manually, but with this plugin is a way easier.
About the plugin review: https://www.wpvidz.com/best-wordpress-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-3/
Although I am at the moment not recommending the newest version of this plugin, because me and a few people have some problems.,
Once I have tested the updates and it works fine, I will recommend it again
Thanks
Super article.
When you structure your pages logically with one H1 tag, one or two H2 tags, and one or two H2 tags beneath the H2 tags, you create a page that is structured and easy to follow. Search engine robots are a little more simplistic than most people, but they are trying to index pages with the keywords that the pages are about.
The H1 tag is the most important heading because it’s the highest level tag that shows what your specific page is about. Search engines generally give this tag more weight over other headings, so it usually improves your search engine ranking when you use it correctly and in conjunction with other onsite SEO techniques.
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