I am sorry, but this is not clear. Why the H1 tag for the home page is never found by the search engines, crawlers or SEO tools? How can this be corrected? I do not want to break the site appearance/layout including a Text Field in the page to set it as H1. This is what I got from Bing:
SEO Suggestion The <h1> tag is missing.
Severity High
Error Count 1
Non-Compliant Pages 1
SEO Explanation The <h1> tag is an indicator to Bingbot and web visitors of what the body copy’s primary theme or topic is. The <h1> tag reinforces the core keyword(s) found in the title, description, and the body copy. We recommend that the <h1> tag includes keywords that reflect the contents of the page and that it is not longer than approximately 150 characters in length.
Recommended Action Add a header to the page by using a <h1> tag and place it within the <body> of the page source. Example: <h1>A precise and descriptive headline for the page</h1>.
Hello,
We have no reports of search engines not finding the h1 tags on our theme. If you are searching for it in the homepage, then you are not going to find a h1 tag if the page title is not set.
Here is a search on our official demo: http://screencast.com/t/xll5QXEHTw It finds a h1 tag on the post but no h2. And it’s right. There is no h2 set on that post.
Please do a search on a post or page that has a h1 set and see if it will not show up at all.
Let us know how it goes.
Thank you!
Please check my site no H1 Tag on home page. http://prntscr.com/9cxyma
How to add H1 tag on home page.
I test the demo:
http://s1.postimg.org/edpr9og5r/image.png
No H1
Also i have this problem
Thx
p.s. use this tools : http://www.seoreviewtools.com/html-headings-checker/
Right
so make an H1 tag for your home page.
Make a text block someplace on page, wrap it in h1 and do something like short description of your site for SEO. This is what we do. Google/Bing have no trouble reading it.
Chris S Thx
Would not it make sense that all titles in in H1?
Yoast : “In classic HTML, there would be 1 H1 tag on each page, maybe a couple of H2’s etc and these would all combine to form an outline of the entire document.”…
In the case of HTML4, it seems logical to use one H1 per page, of course being the main title of that page. In most cases, that’s not your brand name or website name (on your homepage it probably is, and that’s fine).
https://yoast.com/headings-use/
Thx
No. All titles on home page should not be H1. a) they change continuously as news or article items and b) the H1 for a “page” should match the title tag in the META data — usually specific to that ONE page (e.g., the front page). Titles on front page would normally be h2 for section heads on page if desired, and h3 for news item titles. h2 for news titles and h3 for widgets also very common. But semantically, all they refer to is a level of importance or sizes relative to other content.
On posts the “title” is an H1 tag (do view source to see your actual content).
While HTML5 technically supports multiple H1 tags and mutliple <article></article> sections; for SEO there should be just *one* H1 tags on any page, post, index, archive, etc., which for Google guidelines should generally be the same thing as the <title></title> on that matching page.
I’ve been doing SEO for 20 years (21 come March 2016), so I do know a little about it and not just positing an opinion here 🙂
Chris S thank you. This Save me a lot of time. 😉
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Thank you all for the help. Bogdan, you are right, the “problem” occurs only on the homepage. I am going to fit in a text box somewhere in the page, as suggested by Chris. Thanks.
I am sorry, I just did that but I am not happy with the text appearance. Is it possible to change that H1 style (text) just in the home page, I mean, fonts, size, etc? Thank you.
Hello,
@JCAires If you want to just target the h1 on the homepage, you can use css to do it like so:
.home h1{
font-family:
font-size:
color:
etc.
}
@Arafat The test is correct. You have no h1 tag on your homepage.Just the h3 tags for the module titles. This seo site testing does not search your entire site for h1 tags. It just inspects the link you give it. If you type just your website, then only the home page will be scanned for h1 tags. Try it with a link to a post and you will see the h1 will be there.
Thank you!
Home page. Make a text box, and put your text in there, wrap in h1 tags, add desired h1 style for home and shazam.
