Is is ok to have multiple H2 or H3s?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi mozzers,

I am wondering if the search engine gets bothered to read multiple heading 2s or heading 3s or heading4s (these would be unique content headings of course)?

I am asking this because I need to follow a consistent content structure and many of titles would fall into one type of headings.

Thanks

Ty

[danatanseo]

Yes, multiple H2 and H3s are perfectly okay as long as they make sense. Think about the outline of a book or research paper. You could have Chapter 1, followed by several or many subchapters, and each of those subchapters or subheadings could have subsections. As long as those headings make sense in terms of the structure of your content, it's perfectly ok. There are even times when multiple H1 tags are okay. For example a very big site, or business, that might have three different arms of the business that all want to be represented equally on the home page, might possibly have multiple H1s (although be really really careful with that).  Hope this helps!

[bradkrussell]

I would agree with everything that danatanseo stated regarding H2 and H3 tags. However, I would never use multiple H1 tags.

As stated in SEOmoz's own on page optimisation reports:

"Best practices for both SEO and accessibility require only a single H1 tag. The H1 is meant to be the page's headline, and thus, multiple H1s are confusing. Consider employing H2, H3 or CSS styles to achieve the same results with text visualization."

Hope this helps!

[danatanseo]

I agree that 99% of the time multiple H1 tags are not best. However, imagine your Web site is a trilogy with three completely separate volumes. In a case like this I think the site title tag might  "Trilogy of 3 books" - and then there could very well be a blurb about each separate book on the home page. The titles of each one of those books could be an H1 tag.

Now, one could argue that each of those "books" maybe should have its own Web site, that's probably another discussion

[Ideas-Money-Art]

It totally makes sense.

Thank you guys!!

[Joelsblog]

I regret reading this topic... Because I don't get it... I was doing an SEOSITECHECK on my blog and it told me that I have too many H2's how do I fix that!??

[Joelsblog]

How do I reduce the too many H2's on my blog