H1 Mystery with Mozpro and Mozbar
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Moz's crawler has notified me that the H1s for all the blog posts are missing but Mozbar says the page title is designated as the H1 for each post. In Wordpress, the code to the page title is not accessible in "text." I viewed page source and took a look through the code to find the H1 connected to the page title, but couldn't locate it. Usually, Wordpress themes automatically give the page title an H1 tag. Interested to hear any further insights on this topic...
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Hi Harjodh
When something is found by site crawler it just means that the page is accessible, it does not mean that it is indexed in Google. There may be many reasons why a page is on the site but not indexed, Including
Duplicate content problem
Noindex tag or directive in robots.txt
Canonical to another page.
Skinny or low quality contentThe code to a page title will be viewable if you right click, 'view source' - the page title will only be viewable in WP if you have Yoast or similar installed and is not in the text view of Wordpress.
So:
1. Check source code and search the page for the title tag - this will be the name of the article.
2. Install Yoast to add an alternate title and description if you need to. (definitely install Yoast!)
3. If the H1 is not visible on the page (and I would be surprised because most themes, as you say, make the post title the H1) then you will need to add it or update the theme so that the theme does it.Screaming Frog is an excellent tool for scanning a site and has no limitations on daily use. It will help you see everything!
I hope this helps,
Regards
Nigel
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