Header tags

What are Header Tags

Before the internet, we used to read news papers, magazines to find out current affairs and information. We all have heard the word “Headlines”. After the internet revolution, “Headlines” converted into “Header Tags”. It is not wrong if we call header tags as virtual headlines. Drafting content and representing it with better indications and visualization is good practice.

It looks great with content. But how can you make the search engines understand the formatting? To solve this problem we can use the HTML Tags to define content formatting. We can use tags to define Title, Heading, Paragraph, font color and text type (bold, italic or strike out). These tags make crawlers to differentiate between the content types and read it according to your representation. Every tag has its own value. Be it title tags, heading tags or paragraph tags. Let’s take few examples of page heading tags.

Given below are examples of Header Tags

HTML headings are defined with the to tags:

• <h1>Website Heading 1</h1>
• <h2>Website Heading 2</h2>
• <h3>Website Heading 3</h3>
• <h4>Website Heading 4</h4>
• <h5>Website Heading 5</h5>
• <h6>Website Heading 6</h6>

Importance of header tags

Heading tags are the basic HTML tags. These are used to identify content headings and subheadings within your page content. Search engines give priority to headings and read each and every tag you have created for the page content. Headings are important for search engine crawlers to understand structured content and read content systematically. We can do formatting for users to see the color and style but in order to make search engine crawlers understand the organized data, we have to use heading HTML Tags.

How to create perfect header tags for website

While creating header tags, you should keep few things in your mind.

• Tags should be grammatically correct.
• Do not over stuff heading with keywords.
• Put the target keyword in Header tags (Make sure to use one keyword to which is focused on your written content).
• Relate tags with page title.
• Focus on H1, H2 and H3 as they have more SEO value.
• Try using synonyms or similar words of H1 in H2 or H3
• Placement of tags should be right and relevant. I.e. using header tags before the paragraph is considered as best practice. Using them in the middle of information is not recommended.
• Try using unique header tags for different pages.

Given below are few examples of heading tags which I have used in my earlier post Best SEO suggestions to improve keyword ranking

As you can see above, I’ve used H1, H2 and H3 header tags because they have the better SEO (Search Engine Optimization) value. If you go through Google Accessibility, then you can find given below information on heading tags.

Header Tags SEO

Header tags SEO is all about creating the tags to optimize website SEO or page SEO score. If you follow the instructions above, you will be able to create perfect headings for your website or application. Headings are most important part of the page as they attract users. While reading or searching the content, user often skip the content and read the headings. If you create engaging tags, it will keep the user busy and help you reduce the bounce rate. Page quality will grow and your website page will perform better in SERP.

Focus on quality while creating the tags. Do not over optimize the page and feed unnecessary keywords in heading tags. Try to match the heading with your page content and keep the user behavior in mind. Write the headings keeping the search intent and page content in mind.

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