How to use h1, h2 and h3 header tags

Your header tags are an important part of the SEO factor because they are used to your website is about. The search engines like Google will recognize that your header tags are more important than the rest. Well my friends this will all start with your h1 and will work it's way down in importance to the h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 ans so it goes.These tags should help support the overall theme and purpose of your page content.

Please keep in mind when writing your content that you can not just throw in whatever content you want into these headers. It is important for you to utilize your header tags with short-tail and long-tail keywords. Each search engine, like Google, Bing etc. will crawl your site, and pick out the headers which will then be recognized as keywords you are using as important to your content.

Even though the header tags do extend to h4, h5 and h6, you should really only focus on the first three since these are the tags that carry the most SEO value. Please keep in mind that you can not just go and insert your header tags anywhere and expect to see results. Your Header tags have their own place on your page so you will have to use them in the proper order starting with your h1.

Once you have your keywords the h1 tag should contain your targeted keywords, make sure the keywords are related to your page title and is relevant to your content. The h2 tag is your subheading which should contain similar keywords to your h1 tag. Your h3 will then be a subheading for your h2 and so on. Think of these tags as a hierarchy based on importance, the above being more important than the below. Please note that you should not stuff your h1, h2 and h3 tags with keywords because this will not help but can hurt cause. You will be recognize as someone who is trying to manipulate them — that’s a huge red flag for Google and it will hurt your rankings!

What Does Coding look like?

The <h1> to <h6> tags are used to define HTML headings. <h1> defines the most important heading. <h6> defines the least important heading. The coding should be something like what is shown below:

Remember your h1 tag is the most important tag. Make sure that every page has an h1 tag.

So I really just wanted to shed some light on My original Blog post on Creating Valuable Content. I hope this helps give some clarity on what how to use the header tags properly in your content.

Thanks for reading,

Lorraine