Hello,
your theme is really amazing. Analyzing your theme with some SEO Tool, like “http://handergy.com/analisi-seo/”, two of the elements more important that missing therefore, are:
1) H1 tag missing on the Homepage;
2) Alt tag missing for images on the homepage;
Screenshot: http://i39.tinypic.com/2nv3txs.jpg
Regarding H1 tag, there are many different thoughts; some uses it behind the “logo images” only in the Homepage, using a variable condition that change the H tag in other pages.
For example: H1 tag behind the logo in the homepage; H3 for all other pages or nothing H tag for other pages.
Other instead, uses the H1 for all posts in the homepage; other again, uses the H1 tag for the “category name” and H3 (as you) for all post name, in the homepage.
Another great example is the famous site “Yoast.com”, the founder of WordPress SEO by Yoast; as I said before, it use H1 tag behind the logo images only the Homepage and “p class” for all other pages.
Howeaver, I think that for this, we can find a good solution for us!
Can you try to improve these two “SEO Features”, for next updates?
I think that is really important follow some SEO advice for sites today and these, are two features quite important.
Thank you!
A good thought for improving landing page visibility for non magazine portals using this theme. Note that on “most” magazine sites there is no semantic need for an H1 tag on the “cover page” as there is no unique content, as it’s often dofollow links to the story which has H1 tags and you want THAT page to be indexed under the title of the story as the canonical link and not the same content on home page (I’ve been doing SEO since 1996, fyi, professionally). Often with the “home page” the H1 tag is actually used on a slider to focus on the ‘featured’ information; so for example if you have a slider loading slides via ajax, the “visible slide” would have H1 tags for the “featured” element, or headline, and that would become the H1 tag for the front page as primary element.
On a service portal like Yoast, which is not a news magazine, there is no “featured” element, and so the logo is an appropriate place to use the H1 as he is optimizing for YOAST as well as ‘website optimization.’
So, you may want to check usage of the “slider” options first, which are commonly used for this particular theme and which may have the H1 tag you’re looking for.
Adding a conditional logo tag for only the home page might add bloat to the theme for that purpose.
Also, for “alt tags” — remember you need to actually add the alt tags to your images on upload with the media manager. My sites have proper alt tags on the home page, and have since day one, so not sure where you’re seeing those “missing.”
Hope that contributed to the discussion a little bit 🙂
Chris
(pardon the mix of ” and “” here …. in one of those moods today where lazy to hit the shift key 🙂 )
Hello,
sorry for alt tags, you have right.
For H1 tag, I think that this theme is used a little bit for all 😉
Yes, it as layout, can be used for a magazine site, but I don’t think that all webmaster uses it only for this. Use this theme to publish their article, new, tutorial, many times, in specific topic.
Similar to Yoast, who talk of website optimization, wordpress, hosting, and other argoments, I think that we can use the H1 tag also for your sites. On what position, I don’t know, as I said before, there are various thoughts on Internet.
I hope who Marius and Radu, can implement in in the future, find a best solution.
Also insert H1 in the slider, as you suggested, can be a very nice solution.
It couldn’t hurt. Point I was making is that Google is going to filter search results for the best match for a specific topic. On most sites these days there is little unique on the home page relative to a page such as “services” or “pricing” or “our staff” where Google would focus on the page related to that topic. Meaning, you don’t want Google to show your home page for your services, you want them to show your services pages when somebody searches for “Anna’s 1986 Whacky Widgets.” 🙂
Additionally, if you’re not building a newspaper layout, you can build any type of page and the title of the page is an H1, or if using a custom taxonomy simply use H1 tags for your header text which you type into the page itself.
That is a clever use of the H1 tag on Joost’s home page:
<h1 class="site-title" itemprop="name"><meta itemprop="logo" content="http://cdn.yoast.com/wp-content/themes/yoast-theme/images/header/logo_x2.png"/><a itemprop="url" href="http://yoast.com/" title="Yoast">Yoast</a></h1>
I’m still surprised they’re (Joost and co.) are not using white space removal and comment removal to optimize the HTML delivery of their pages, which would enhance page load and caching.
Still, an “option” to put an h1 element on the logo div only for home page as a clickable option, might not be a bad idea!
