Hi,
can you please tell me how I can remove the sidebar heading <h3> from the sidebar without changing the look of the site?
At the moment I have 48 x <h3></h3> on my site (because of the latest news widget). That’s really not good.
http://www.promicabana.de/the-walking-dead-spoiler-dieser-charakter-musste-midseason-finale-sterben/
And how to remove the <h3> in the mega menus?
Thank you!
You get no SEO penalty for using many h3 tags. The h1 tag is primary title, h2 is a primary sub head. h3 tags are then used throughout sites for things like sub heads in articles, posts, about us pages, sidebar topic headers etc. This denotes a heading of the third order. You can have 100 of them on a page and it does not impact your SEO … it’s only a “semantic” element to identify something as a type of header, vs simply bolded/strong text. They are used correctly for this theme for modern semantic usage, and for SEO.
Ok, thanks….that was my concern! 🙂
Where it gets really confusing is that HTML5 actually suggested using more than one h1 on a page, such as having containers (think a parallax page for example), to denote the primary heading for a section inside a semantic container, such as the primary headline for a section on one page about the company, versus how to contact company. However, Google/Bing have said they prefer *one* H1 on page which is the defacto “title” for page, and is used with the meta title in SERPS. h2 can be used as “big section headers” on a page multiple times, h3 then used a subordinate headers for anything which is not a “major” section. h4 and h5 often used for tiny things, but are less common though semantically correct to use in place of a bold/strong tag for some things. Again, think of it as an identifier that it’s a “header” versus something offset in bold for effect.
It’s always an adventure 🙂
