Positioning H1 and H2 tags adjacent on a page without content in between

[Avid-Design]

Is it best practice to separate H1 and H2 tags with P tag or other content, or is it ok to have H1 and H2 adjacent without content in between?

[ThompsonPaul]

Answered a similar question a couple of weeks ago, Tom.
https://moz.com/community/q/can-we-add-header-tags-followed-by-header-tags-without-text-in-between-best-practice

Bottom line is that header tags are semantically designed to introduce the following section of content. If the following content is more headers, it breaks this semantic paradigm. Not a critical disaster, but not best practice either.

That help?

Paul

[AjazMozPro]

I agree with Paul. I would have H1 title then a brief intro followed by the H2 sub heading, then dive into your content.

[VeroBrain]

Hi Tom,

Great question!
Maybe if you see the Hs as what they are. I mean, like newspapers titles (heads). The purpose of the Hs is to give a clear clue about the content that follows. If you set a head with no further content, it is not a good UX. Also the algorithms of the search engines might qualify the page as "thin content", which will not help for getting a good PA at all.

H1: Christmas 2017
Content: Santa is travelling all over the world...

H2: Santa visited Australia
Content: One of his first visits this year...

H3: Kids were atonished
Content: Santa brought amazing presents...

Good luck and Merry Christmas!

Mª Verónica