H1 question

[gergi]

is it recommended to have the page title labeled as H1? or better to have page title and separate H1 ?

thank you

[Alick300]

Hi Gorge,

I am sharing excerpt from recently published article (26 feb 15) on seroundtable.com .

"Consistent but not identical.The main thing is for you to test and see what works for your site and your rankings and users."

"1. Usability - if title and headline are more or less the same, it's easier for users to identify the page they clicked through to from the result pages as the one they found on the search engine because search engine results use the title as main result element, whereas the element immediately visible on the page is the headline, the title there is invisible as long as users don't know exactly where to look for it. It may therefore irritate users if title and headline differ too much.

2. Keyword prominence - it's obvious that it makes sense to use the same keywords in titles and headlines, simply because a single page should always define it's topic as exactly as possible, which means there will always be only two or three main keywords any given page will be optimized for."

To read full article please visit @ https://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-h1-identical-19923.html

Thanks

[donford]

Recommended, I wouldn't put it that way. Another way to look at is will it hurt my page (could it be considered spamming)? The answer to that is no, it won't hurt. Many CMS systems will use a page title as the H1 tag simply because it is likely the most relevant data that is already required to create the amount of dynamic pages they do.

If you can however, you may find that you will get more keyword traffic by switching up the title and H1 text a little. In all likely hood the Title and H1 maybe very similar (except for in some HTML 5 pages where there can be multiple H1 tags). This being the case you can use the same main keywords but expand on them in the H1 tag since it is not truncated or limited to a certain amount of characters. Making the H1 tag sound more natural and likely creating longer tailed keywords users may search for.

Hope this helps,

Don