Is having one blanket h1 tag across my site bad?

[joebordersmft]

I've been working on figuring out if my site host (jigsy) is hindering my seo. The site editor doesn't allow me to assign individual h1 tags for each page, it just blankets one across the whole site as part of a theme.....is this normal?...would it be better to have individual h1s?....is that a thing? Or should I work on making a better one since all my pages should technically be related to counseling/therapy?

Site: www.joeborders.com

[donsilvernail]

You should have control over your h1 tags. What is the copy of the h1 tag that the site is producing? Is the site a wordpress site? You would not want to have just one h1 tag with the same copy for every page. The H1 acts like a title. It is the most important tag when it comes to SEO

[joebordersmft]

I'm not sure what you mean by the copy of the h1 tag the site is producing. My site address is www.joeborders.com

I contacted customer support at jigsy again today and they said I have no option about the blanket h1 tag and that their system uses all other headings as h2s. They did say that I can add additional h1 tags to the html code on individual pages....not sure if Google would hate me for this

[EGOL]

Change hosts as soon as possible!

If you don't you will shoot yourself when you finally find out how much traffic you are losing by not having each page optimzied with the proper title tag.

[joebordersmft]

Ugh! this is what I've been trying to solidly figure out. I also just learned that they don't have any way for me to do redirects on blog pages and....soooo I've got all these old ones with bad permalinks Im stuck with.

This brings up another problem though, They are making it really difficult to move to another host. There is no way to transfer my site aside from doing something manually....and I'm afraid of messing up stuff that might damage my seo. What do you think?

by the way, my host is jigsy.com...a couple of times when I've asked them about something they have said they are on "ruby on rails"?

[joebordersmft]

you guys, I'm losing my mind lol. Just talked with a representative at Squarespace and he said they do the exact same thing! Is this something thats maybe not a big deal and I'm just worrying too much?

[joebordersmft]

...but now I'm reading through their material on seo and it looks like they do support individual h1 tags for each page? lolol

[donsilvernail]

What does the h1 tag say. The words... That's copy.

[donsilvernail]

You Should have a self hosted website. Do not use Wix or Squarespace. SEO is terrible on these platforms.