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Definition of Heading Tags

<h1> to <h6> tags used to define heading on a web page.

HTML Tag Reference

Tag                                               Description
<html>                                        Defines an HTML document
<body>                                        Defines the document's body
<head>                                        Defines the documnets head element
<h1> to <h6>                              Defines HTML headings

<h1>  </h1> is the first heading which is critical for any web document and <h6></h6> is the least important heading that holds very less importance in a web document  as compared to other heading tags.

Defined heading tags are :

<h1> some text here</h1>

<h2> some text here</h2>

<h3>some text here</h3>

<h4>some text here</h4>

<h5>some text here</h5>

<h6>some text here</h6>

h1 tag should be main headings which if followed by further h2,h3, and so on. The h1 is usualyy the boldest one whereas h6 font size is smallest.

Heading tags come with various attributes to make user-friendly websites but search engines use these defined headings solely to index the structure and content of web documnets including blog posts.

How to use Heading tags for SEO?

Apart from web designing point of view, there are a few more things that you should know about heading tags.

1. Purpose of using Headings Tags:

    The main purpose of categorizing your content with different headings so that your design become more user friendly and people will get a notion about your website more easily by just reading the sub-headings.

Now we know H1tag is most important tag so whenever you going to use it for your webpage heading just try to make it like that people get an idea about your website just reading your heading. So that h1 tag should be in that way which describes everything about your web page just in one shot.

2. Hierarchy:
  
   Hierarchy on your web page should be like <h1> comes first  which is followed by <h2>,<h2 followed <h3>, <h3>followed by <h4>, <h4> followed by <h5>, <h5> followed by<h6>. For better SEO of your web page, one should have to follow the hierarchy in this way.

3. Headings tags with Keyworgds

    Keywords are first and foremost priority of any SEO expert. In the matter, we first do the research of best keywords according to the web page and then categorize these keywords into focus keyword, primary keyword, secondary keyword and territory keyword. Focus keyword is always one for the 'webpage. It's better to include your focus keyword into the title, Meta tags, and h1 of the webpage.

--- Frequency of Using the Heading Tags especially h1 tag

  It is recommended that one should have h1 tag per webpage because h1 tag should be like a newspaper heading and other content should be structued with subheadngs by followed the hierarchy of heading tags, Using of subheadings depend on the way your content is structured.


4. H1 Tag in Latest HTML5

   In the previous versions HTML, only one H1 tag is allowed to designers to use per web document and what people do that time they just used H1 tag to wrap the business logo on the web page which is important for any business web page and start the main heading of the web page with the H2 tag. But with the help of updated version of html. i.e HTML5 which allows the designer to have multilple  h1 tags on a web page according to the requirements of the web page design.


  Ex.  Single Page Websites: 

          Heading tags are crucial for the proper On page SEO of your blog posts. One mistake which is common among newbie bloggers is excessive use of H2 or H3 tags & at times skippping H2 tags & only using H3 tags.










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