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Semantic HTML and Search Engine Optimization
Following on from his last article on optimizing your site structure to improve SEO,Joost de Valk now turns his attention to improving SEO further through the use of good
semantic HTML.
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When I have long articles I have to divide them in subpages, adding a numeric navigation bar for all the pages.
I have a semantic conflict: If the significative unit is the page (and not the bunch of them which form the article), it is weird to tag as h3 an epigraph tagged as h2 in the previous page.
What I do is recreate in each page the global structure: h1 with the title of the article, h2 with the title of the sub-epigraph, and the texto with the corresponding h3 headers. This way I preserve the unit of the article while situating each part in the apropriate context, keeping at time the singularity of all pages. (stetically it is not very nice, but I can make disappear the empty h in the presentation layer with a class styled as display:none;).
Would this be a 'good practice' in your opinion?
Thanks for the article an your comments.
I have a semantic conflict: If the significative unit is the page (and not the bunch of them which form the article), it is weird to tag as h3 an epigraph tagged as h2 in the previous page.
What I do is recreate in each page the global structure: h1 with the title of the article, h2 with the title of the sub-epigraph, and the texto with the corresponding h3 headers. This way I preserve the unit of the article while situating each part in the apropriate context, keeping at time the singularity of all pages. (stetically it is not very nice, but I can make disappear the empty h in the presentation layer with a class styled as display:none;).
Would this be a 'good practice' in your opinion?
Thanks for the article an your comments.
"search engines cannot read the text in your images." True, but can they read the alt text? And how much weight is it given, compared to normal text, and 'Image replaced' text?
Originally posted by daneastwell:
"search engines cannot read the text in your images." True, but can they read the alt text? And how much weight is it given, compared to normal text, and 'Image replaced' text?
Yes, search engines do read the alt attribute contents of your images. As to how much weight is given compared to other types of text on the page...I'm not sure about that; it's a good question!
I'll have to track down an SEO expert to ask.
Thanks for your comments.
Chris Mills
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com
My observation is that no one inside of, say, a Google or a Bing, would ever divulge specifics to someone on the outside of their indexing algorithms. And, anyone on the outside would only be speculating.
The search engines can read the file name, the title text, the alt text, the caption, and the description text. All of these are routine entry fields on a WordPress blog for an individual image.
Don Roberts
The search engines can read the file name, the title text, the alt text, the caption, and the description text. All of these are routine entry fields on a WordPress blog for an individual image.
Don Roberts
29. September 2011, 07:00:50 (edited)
Hi there,
I am hoping someone can give me an answer on the best practice for the H1 tag on a blog.
I am developing a Wordpress blog and see that in this post Joost talks about how you can place the H1 tag multiple times on the blog home page. For example to use the H1 tag on all the post titles on the home page.
but in many other posts i see that people say they should only use one H1 per page.
In another post from Joost at http://yoast.com/blog-headings-structure/ he says "There is usually only one H1 on any page"...
Now notice the word 'usually'. so in that post he doesnt say that it 'should' be one H1 tag.
So if i place the H1 tag on ALL of my post titles on the home page will that be too many H1 one tags on one page? or is it ok?
Hope to hear from someone on this matter soon
Cheers
robolist
I am hoping someone can give me an answer on the best practice for the H1 tag on a blog.
I am developing a Wordpress blog and see that in this post Joost talks about how you can place the H1 tag multiple times on the blog home page. For example to use the H1 tag on all the post titles on the home page.
but in many other posts i see that people say they should only use one H1 per page.
In another post from Joost at http://yoast.com/blog-headings-structure/ he says "There is usually only one H1 on any page"...
Now notice the word 'usually'. so in that post he doesnt say that it 'should' be one H1 tag.
So if i place the H1 tag on ALL of my post titles on the home page will that be too many H1 one tags on one page? or is it ok?
Hope to hear from someone on this matter soon
Cheers
robolist