Choosing a title tag in seo (H1 or H2 or H3)

[seom2014]

I look many times on google that what is the best tag to set in title for seo, H1 or H2 or H3 In many forums and sites they are asking that you need to put only H2 tag in title and someone ask to put H1 in title and i am confused,

Some body tell me the correct tag for seo in google, or any other search engine.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

H1 should be the most important title on your page. What you most times see is that you're using H2 and H3 for listings or other headings on the rest of the page.

Martijn.

[BenjaminMorel]

The answer to this questions kind of depends on the technology you are using.

(X)HTML 4 and below will only allow you to use one h1 per page - so it's got to be the most important thing on that page. Think of it like the headline on the front of a newspaper. Your H2 elements are then the sub-heads, h3's sub-subheads and so on; like the newspaper you can have as many of those breaking up the text as you want. This is why you may have heard about people using an h2 element for their main headline, especially on home pages; the most "important" thing there - to the client at least - is the logo, which is therefore often wrapped in an h1.

HTML5, on the other hand, lets you have multiple h1 elements (one per section). So you can wrap your logo - up in the header - in one, you can have one for your page's main headline - it's in a

or-  and your sidebar can have one - it's in its own <sidebar>after all. You can even have one in your footer if the whim takes you. Search engines establish which h1 is more important through a hierarchy (article is more important than sidebar is more important than header or footer).

Hope that helps!</sidebar>

[WesleySmits]

Ben Morei stated the difference between HTML4 and HTML5 in using heading tags already. His answer is therefor completely correct.

What i would like to add to his answer is that you should look at H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 tags as if the webpage is a book. In a book the chapter-title is a H1 tag. All the subchapters have an H2 tag. If these subchapters have another sub-area then this would be marked up with an H3 tag and so on.

Having a clear hierarchy in your heading tags will make it more user friendly. Search engines might also understand better which parts of the content are connected to each other and which are separate because of this.

Hope i answered your question and if anything is still unclear feel free to ask more details.
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