Hello to all the team,
Our blog with the theme “Newspaper” is penalized (SEO) because we did not tag <h2>. We have an <h1> tags unique and <h3>.
The markup hierarchy is not respected.
My question: how to transform the <h3> (current) into tags <h2>
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Site is not penalized for <h3> tags …. <h2> tags only useful for persistent content, like a sub-headline, or a section head. All other “presentational” headlines, index links to articles, etc., can be <h3>. Google does not penalize you for using h3 tags. h1 tags are used for SEO, h2 is generally only used once on a page also, and h3 is used for all supplemental sub-heads, section heads, relational heads, etc.
Content is more important than h2 vs h3.
But you might provide an example of where on your page, post, index, etc., you feel this isn’t being done properly in your particular usage ?
( I don’t work here, but started web dev in 1994, and SEO in 1995 (!) … so ….. know something about it … )
Hello Chris,
Thank you for your reply. Our SEO agency confirms that the lack of tag <H2> is not great (on the homepage).
The source code of the page. Thank you in advance for your return.
Kind regards.
Hello,
Unanswered for 8 days, the problem is still not resolved.
I will explain again the problem.
On the home page of the website, it does not exist tag <h2>.
example:
<H1> </ h1>
<H3> </ h3>
<H3> </ h3>
<H3> </ h3>
The theme ignores the <h2>, which penalizes us an SEO perspective (SEO) because the hierarchy is not respected.
How to activate the presence of the <h2 <? Or how to transform the <h3> tags in <h2>?
Thank you. Best regards.
So, on the home page you can add your own text boxes with content … theme cannot invent content for you.
So, in our case, for example we have a text box with h1 tag which is short description of what the site is about.
Above certain news sections we have h2 tags on sub-heads “Book Reviews”…
You don’t need <h3> tags on ‘headlines’ on front page as they are ephemeral and have no SEO value; only persistent elements.
SO, if you use Visual Composer or TD composer, simply experiment with adding your own content.
[slider———-][sidebar]
[text box with h1]
[block of stories]
[text box with h2]
Really up to YOU to decide how you want to lay out, design, and create your site content.
Good luck!
Hello Chris,
Thank you for this interesting return.
I was able to apply a tag <h2> (manually).
Precisely we only keep the <h1> and <h2>. The tags <h3> are too many. But instead of removing the <h3>, we would like to turn them into tags <h2>.
Here is part of the hierarchy of tags currently on the website (extract):
<h1> Chainesbox
<h3> Chaines Polaire X10 (ou chaines araignées)
<h3> Le top 10 des plus beaux chalets
<h2> Chaine neige guide achat
<h4> Guide d’achat
<h3> Chaine neige pour Mini Clubman : Ă©quipement hiver
<h3> Quelle chaine à neige choisir pour BMW série 3 ?
<h3> Chaine neige Audi A3, quel modèle choisir?
<h4> Insolite
Include the <h2> following your advice, but it is unfortunately misplaced.
How do we transform the <h3> to the <h2>? (In code or in visual composer)
Thank you. Kind regards.
Hi
The theme add h3 on post title and to change it in h2 you need to edit td_module.php and change this heading: http://screencast.com/t/5gPTQh2N5f
Hope this helps!
Thanks!
Hello Andrei L.
Thank you. The change h3> h2 works perfectly. Your procedure is effective.
Can you send us the tutorial to: h4> h3 (with screencast).
Thanks again.
Kind regards.
Andrel, does the H3 to H2 change you provided affect only the home page and archive pages? Or does it also affect posts and pages as well?
Hello,
It will affect anywhere a module is present. Blocks are made of one or more modules. a post has no modules as we do not recommend using visual composer on posts, but on categories and search pages and author pages and everywhere there are modules involved as all module titles are affected by that function.
Thank you!
Hello TechRanker,
The change h3> h2 works perfectly. (Homepage and category pages). For pages articles, no problem. We are now trying to do the same work for h4> h3.
Thank you.
Best regards.
Thanks guys.
I asked this question because, if the affected modules are displayed on posts via sidebars, mega menu, footers, etc., this would not be good for SEO in my opinion. On posts, I believe H2 should only be used within the article, not anywhere else.
I’m considering using Newspaper for a new project and I want to do the H3>H2 and H4>H3 change on the home page and category pages, and not on posts or pages.
You can get fancy with the code if you know your way around php and creating a few conditions ad you can target specific pages whare you want the code to apply. WordPress has a few nifty functions like
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_single/
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_category/
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_page/
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your feedback.
We seek to make this change only on the home pages and posts pages. We check our hérarchies tag with that URL -> http://www.webrankinfo.com/outils/balises-h1-h6.php#gref
Currently, the hierarchy of the home page tags is perfect 🙂
Can you tell us specifically, the technique to make this change of tag h4> h3.
Best regards.
Thanks Bogdan.
I will give the conditional logic a try! I will also share all of my SEO tweaks.
Autobox,
It’s good to known that the HTML5 hierarchy is good now. When I tested Newspaper a while back, it wasn’t 100% correct.
Thank you for your answers.
it’s ok for HTML5 algorithm. We prefer to manually change the tags h4> h3.
The procedure of Andrei L. was perfect.
“Andrei L.
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October 20, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Hi
The theme is h3 add post title and to change it in h2 you need to edit and exchange td_module.php this heading: http://screencast.com/t/5gPTQh2N5f
Hope this helps!
Thanks! ”
We need the same tutorial, but for tags h4> h3.
Best regards.
Curious Autobox,
What H4 elements do you want to change to H3? When I look at this Newspaper site:
http://www.webrankinfo.com/outils/balises-h1-h6.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoconutoilpost.com%2Fcoconut-oil-benefits%2Fcoconut-oil-treatment-cure-cold-sores%2F
I don’t see H4 elements that should be changed to H3.
If I were you, I’d do the following:
– Make sure H1 and H2 are on the home page and category pages.
– On pages and posts, make sure that H2 is only used in the article content.
– Make sure H2 is not used in any sidebar or widget. Use H3 in widgets that contain links to posts.
There are a few more optimizations I plan to do. I’ll share them in a moment.
Hi,
Just a wild guess, I think the block titles are the ones you are referring to. They can be changed from here:
http://screencast.com/t/LJTw7KORx
I hope this helps.
Thanks.
I think you you are wrong website analysis
Here is our website –> http://www.webrankinfo.com/outils/balises-h1-h6.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.chainesbox.com%2F
There is still a hierarchy problem in the tags.
there are still h4 tags despite the change of Bogdan. (Bogdan thank you).
Best regards.
Well if you want to remove ALL of the h4 tags, then you will have to go in the theme code and manually change them all as there are many places that use a h4 tag. Use a text editor such as notepad++ and search for every instance of the h4 tag and change it to a h3 if this is what you want. The theme has no setting to change the tags especially not ALL at once. It will have to be done manually.
Thank you!
