Can we add header tags followed by header tags without text in-between? Best practice?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

I need clarification on this. We are adding new pages where H2 is followed by few bold bullet point headings with plain text description under each bullet point. I am just wondering whether we can given these bold bullet points as H3 tags as just leave as text. In the below example, can "**Good for website" **and "**Good for visitors" **be H3 tags or not?

Benefits of SEO (H2)

Good for website: Followed for best practices to show in search results

Good for visitors: Will give better user experience.

Number of H3 tags followed by a H2 is fine? In fact header tags followed by any header tag if Okay without plain text in-between?

Thanks

[ThompsonPaul]

The semantic purpose of a header tag is to mark a collection of words as a header introducing a section of descriptive content. If what you have instead is a series of headers with no content in between, you're defeating the purpose. There's no "reason" to mark those list elements as headers. If you're using

because it's an easy way to create the styling for those terms, you should get out of that habit.

There's no major damage done by having headers follow each other, but there's no real benefit either. And for what tiny value those headers bring for helping search engine crawlers better understand your page content, you've thrown that away.

In other words - don't do it.

Hope that helps?

Paul