Duplicate H3, H4 or H5 Tags

[moon-boots]

I know that duplicate H1 and H2 tags are a red flag for Google, but does the same apply for H3, H4 and H5 tags? A lot of my products have the same H5 tags and I'm wondering whether or not that is pulling down my keyword rank.

[jactang12]

Hi spacecollective,

Header tags are used to organise your on-page content. If there is a legitimate reason for your product pages to have the same H5 tag, and I believe you do have a legitimate reason, I would not be too concerned about Google penalised you for it.

If you are trying to rank for the keyword that is in your H5 tag however, I would be re-thinking your strategy for this keyword.

Hope this helps!

Jac

[moon-boots]

Hi Jac,

Both reasons actually apply, but I cannot see the logic in your answer. Surely Google either does or does not like it - how is Google to know whether or not it is relevant or not?

[jactang12]

Hi spacecollective,

Maybe I shoud've provded more context around my response.

I'm assuming that your h5 tag would be something like "Product Description" which is a very common reason amongst ecommerce sites as to why they have duplicate header tags across all their product pages. If this is the case, you don't have to worry about it. You wouldn't need to rank for something like "Product Description" anyway.

If this is not the case, maybe you could provide a URL to your page or examples of header tags that you're using?

Jac

[moon-boots]

Ah that makes more sense, thank you, Jac. It is not ''Product Description'' or anything so generic, but rather the type of product. In the example links below it reads ''About This NASA Patch'', as they are all NASA Patches. They can be changed to the product name quite easily.

http://thespacecollective.com/apollo-program-patch

http://thespacecollective.com/apollo-1-patch

http://thespacecollective.com/apollo-7-patch

[moon-boots]

Any update on this Jac?