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Can a H1 Tag Have Multiple Spans Within It?
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H1 tags on my client's website follow the template [Service] + [Location]. These two have their own span, meaning there are two spans in an H1 tag.
class="what">Truck Repair near class="where">California, CA
How do crawl bots see this? Is that okay for SEO?
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Hi Kevin
Yes, there's no problem. Check this html rules:
H1 - H6 tags https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hn.asp
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A is simply an inline formatting tag and has no real meaning so it will be fine as far as SEO goes.
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I wouldn't see it as a problem either, however, I'd look into whether moving away from microformats and moving to schema might be better and cleaner for the code.
Google recommends JSON-LD: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data?visit_id=1-636614196659196059-2807489360&hl=en&rd=1
And you can also add it through GTM, which I find really handy
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