Is my H1 and H2 site structure proper?

[dbuckles]

If I have an h1 tag on the page that describes the purpose of the page, is it a bad idea to make all of the sub-headings h2 tags? A designer mentioned that it was frowned upon to make all of the secondary headings into h2 tags, or to use CSS to selectively style the heading tags.

[dbuckles]

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[evolvingSEO]

Hi

That seems like it should work just fine to me.  Just follow these guidelines.

• does it appear useful to the viewer, does it make it easier to consume the content?
• or does it appear unnatural and spammy?
• also, I am not a fan of blanket rules like "don't ever use multiple h2 tags under your h1" (unless they are clearly stated in Google's quality guidelines or somewhere like that).  You have to look at every situation for what it is, and as long as you are not trying to be manipulative and it makes sense as determined by the content than do it!
• As far as I am aware, the only header tag that is recommended to not repeat on a page is the H1.

-Dan

[Mikpam]

Hello Alexander,

The H2s in this situation look justified and seem to carry the same weight, personally I always ask our guys to style these H2s due to the size in which they render on our Joomla builds (before this they were using H3s for size, yikes) . My suggestion is " don't worry too much about it." There is a consensus in the community that the header tags have less and less weight for SEO . They are particularly useful though in organizing content which is applicable in this situation and Search engines love good clean markup.

[AlanMosley]

disnmiss what he said, its if it makes senmce, this rule only applies to H1, and even that is in doubt.