Comments on: Blog Headlines and Titles Are Important http://www.meryl.net/2006/01/03/blog-headlines-and-titles-are-important/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, social media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ted Demopoulos http://www.meryl.net/2006/01/03/blog-headlines-and-titles-are-important/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Ted Demopoulos Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:25:02 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2006/01/03/blog-headlines-and-titles-are-important/#comment-896 <p>Hi Meryl,</p> <p>You've got it exactly right! Now whether you can use more than one h1 tag is somewhat contentious and SEO experts (I don't claim to be one) argue about it - try a Google search for some viewpoints, for example on "multiple h1 tags." Actually SEO experts seem to argue about a lot, especially since we don't know exactly what the search engines do and we can at best guess.</p> <p>Personally, although I'm very conservative with trying not to annoy the almighty search engines :), when it comes to h1 tags I don't think 2 is excessive -- as long as they make sense in context.</p> <p>Now I wouldn't use ten h1 tags for example, like I've seen some people do.</p> <p>I've used h1 tags for subheadings on about 10 different blogs and it seems to work - the search engines don't get mad and are willing to rank the posts highly.</p> <p>I need to write this up for my blog sometime soon too . . .</p> Hi Meryl,

You’ve got it exactly right!
Now whether you can use more than one h1 tag is somewhat contentious and SEO experts (I don’t claim to be one) argue about it – try a Google search for some viewpoints, for example on “multiple h1 tags.” Actually SEO experts seem to argue about a lot, especially since we don’t know exactly what the search engines do and we can at best guess.

Personally, although I’m very conservative with trying not to annoy the almighty search engines :) , when it comes to h1 tags I don’t think 2 is excessive — as long as they make sense in context.

Now I wouldn’t use ten h1 tags for example, like I’ve seen some people do.

I’ve used h1 tags for subheadings on about 10 different blogs and it seems to work – the search engines don’t get mad and are willing to rank the posts highly.

I need to write this up for my blog sometime soon too . . .

]]> By: Easton Ellsworth http://www.meryl.net/2006/01/03/blog-headlines-and-titles-are-important/comment-page-1/#comment-895 Easton Ellsworth Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:38:27 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2006/01/03/blog-headlines-and-titles-are-important/#comment-895 <p>I, too, tried once upon a time (read: 2005) to be pithy and creative with my post titles. Now I'm attempting the harder but more rewarding path of clear, descriptive, keyword-rich titles. So far it's working very well. It's still difficult to forgo alliteration, pop culture references and provocative words in favor of what works best (plain vanilla keywords), but I'm slowly learning. Thanks for the insightful comments. The blog network I write for, <a href="http://www.knowmoremedia.com" rel="nofollow">Know More Media</a>, will surely benefit from using smart headlines.</p> I, too, tried once upon a time (read: 2005) to be pithy and creative with my post titles. Now I’m attempting the harder but more rewarding path of clear, descriptive, keyword-rich titles. So far it’s working very well. It’s still difficult to forgo alliteration, pop culture references and provocative words in favor of what works best (plain vanilla keywords), but I’m slowly learning. Thanks for the insightful comments. The blog network I write for, Know More Media, will surely benefit from using smart headlines.

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