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The Proper Use of H1 Tags

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Article Overview: H1 tags are one of the many important elements to go into achieving top search engine rankings. Header tags carry a lot of importance with the search engines because it let's them know the proper layout of your website pages. When search engines are crawling through your web site, they need to know the most important content on your site and header tags provide them with what they are looking for.

The Proper Use of H1 Tags

How to Setup H1 Tags to Achieve Top Seo Rankings. H1 tags are one of the many important elements to go into achieving top search engine rankings. Header tags carry a lot of importance with the search engines because it let's them know the proper layout of your website pages. When search engines are crawling through your web site, they need to know the most important content on your site and header tags provide them with what they are looking for.

The best place to insert your h1 tag is in the header just above your content.

It's important to make sure that you include your keyword phrase in all three of your h1 tags.

To start off you'll want to input an h1 tag with your keyword phrase in the first sentence of your article. Then in the middle of your article you'll want to include and h2 or h3 tag with your keyword. In the last sentence you want to make sure that you insert your keyword with an h2 or h3 tag.

Make sure that your first and last sentence of your article contains your keyword.

When inserting heading tags into your article, make sure that they aren't too close together. It's important to break them up.

Where to Locate H1 Tags in Wordpress:

*They are listed as heading 1, heading 2, and heading 3 in the drop down menu in WordPress.

There's a great Wordpress plugin called Seo Pressor that will make using header tags and search engine optimization so much easier to do. The great part is that Seo Pressor will inform you if you forget to add header tags to any of your posts and will instruct you on how to correct it.

H1 tags are just one of the many important factors that you need to achieve top seo rankings. Other factors include internal links, backlinks, alt tags, keyword in the first and last sentence of your article. These are just a few seo techniques that need to be followed in order to achieve top seo rankings.

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