H1 Tag.
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As far as I know to rank well H1 tag should be present in all pages and it should be one of the first things in the page, it also should include the keywords.
I was checking my site and magento generates the H1 with an image,
I dont know if this is wise?
class="logo">The Printer Depo<a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="</a>http://www.theprinterdepo.com/" title="The Printer Depo" class="logo">width="377px" src="https://www.theprinterdepo.com/skin/frontend/default/MAG060062/images/logo.gif" alt="The Printer Depo" />
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Can you please explain more? I am seo beginner, so for now I am just correcting the things that seomoz pro tells me, errors and warnings. I have reduced errors to 0, and I am trying to reduce warnings also.
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I don't think that the H1 makes a massive amount of difference on its own. However, I think that search engines do actively look for a semantic structure. In other words, you should use H1 and structure the content along with H2 and H3, and a couple of image ALTs in there for good measure.
To be honest, your site has a few other SEO issues that I would look at first like lack of textual content and webmastery for example.
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Hi levalencia1
H1 tags are a ranking factor, though one of so many and have a very small direct impact on rankings.
Is still worth having an appropriate & relevant H1 tag though, perhaps more-so for User Experience than for SEO.
Ideally, H1 tags would be actual text rather than a logo or an image. However so long as the logo/image has descriptive Alt Text (which it does in the example in your question, though maybe 'Printers & Printer Supplies' would be better than the brand name) then that's also fine.
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
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There should be a unique heading on each page to give crawlers a good start on determining the topical relevancy of the page.
Heading tags should only be used as headings (think about how you would layout a document or thesis.. you would structure the text ordered with
s then
s etc
In this case, it looks like there is a unique
tag on each of the category & product pages - I wouldn't worry about it too much
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Hi.
First of all I'd like to tell you one thing: H1 is not anymore so determinant as a single ranking factor, as you can verify from the 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors by SEOmoz.
Said that, H1 is still important, especially to help Search Engines to understand "semantically" the content of the page the same H1 is present.
That means that neither the standard solution Magento offers, neither your idea are totally correct.
Let me explain it.
To have as H1 the Logo of your site, means that you are going to have the same H1 for every page of your site. This is not suggested, because you are indirectly telling to the crawlers that "The Printer Depo" is an important keyword for every page your site have... and that is not surely true.
More over, having as H1 you logo (hence, the alt text of it) can cause that more H1 tags will be present in your page (i.e.: in the product page, usually the name/title of the product is treated as H1); and this is not really a good practice, also because you are telling to the search engines that your document is about the 1st H1 keywords and the 2nd one too, fact which may create confusion.
My suggestion (which is also a suggestion Yoast offers in its old but still useful Magento SEO guide) is to maintain the logo as H1 in your home page (using the hack you did is ok), but making the logo has H3 in all the other pages.
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