Heading in the right direction
No, this is not another blog which attempts to teach you how to use heading tags correctly for SEO!
It's more of a... shall we say... confessionary blog, if you will.
In Live Chat the other day, the ubiquitous debate arose about which heading tags to use and when. So I started thinking about my posts and pages. I realised that, in a large number of them, I use my own CSS selectors (with a Google Font plug-in). This was my way of adding a certain flair to my posts and pages.
The problem with that, though, was that I didn't have enough <h1>, <h2> and <h3> tags. Funnily enough, when I had Yoast installed, alarm bells did go off, but I ignored them.
So, guess what I've been doing since the wee hours of this morning (bearing in mind that it's 16:15, here in Brisbane)?
Yes sir!
I've just spent the entire day, going through every single page and post, adding appropriate heading tags. Whew!
And there was an added bonus too: I was able to get rid of a plug-in!
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Wow, that's a lot of work. In the training Kyle has us use the All In One SEO Pack plugin and I see many using Yoast. What are the benefits for this and should I change mine?
Cathy, that's a whole other debate! My personal take on it is to stick with All in One SEO. I tried Yoast, had issues with it, then went back to AIOSEO.
I'm happy where I am.
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Yeah P.S. Google fonts ironically is one of the things that will slow down your site. :)
I'm still stuck with 10 plugins, though. Some of which are part of my X theme.
Yeah, yeah! I know what you're thinking, Cory...
Why do you consider the plugin count a problem? It's really more the content of the plugin than quantity. Besides if we get page caching down, most of those plugins won't even be run when the visitor comes by. Well I say most. It depends on the plugin really, but for the most part you'll just be serving a static page rather than one created on the fly.
Only because of WA's Site Health indicator. Red is not an agreeable color for me. I prefer green.
Oh really that's part of the measurement. I'll have to look into that and see what the deal is there.
Jay commented on the Site Health indicator at one point and said it was an indicator only. He said it's not an absolute yardstick (or words to that effect).