Multiple H1s for Testimonials

[danny.wood]

Hey all,

I've got another HTML5 + multiple H1s question, although I feel like my situation is unique from the other discussions/questions on Moz.

On our homepage at http://www.strutta.com, near the bottom of the page, we have a section for testimonials. Here, we have the names of three other organizations that have written testimonials for us. Following proper HTML5 guidelines, we have placed their company names in H1s.

Could having the names of other companies in H1s potentially dilute the subject/meaning of our page?

Cheers

[KempRugeLawGroup]

I would avoid it, if possible. While I don't know if Google dislikes it, I know for certain Bing does. We had it flagged as a "High Severity" error for us, so we changed it.

Best,

Ruben

[danny.wood]

Yup I've seen that about Bing too.. although after discussion with our front-end developer, we're going to stick with it in the name of good HTML. Our traffic from Bing doesn't represent a big enough ratio to use improper syntax.