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    • Calligraphy
      Calligraphy last edited by

      I have images with text at the top of every page on my site. But no H1 or H tags at all.  I would like the text on the image to be my H1 text. But I don't want to be repetitive. What should I do?

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      • R0bin_L0rd
        R0bin_L0rd @Calligraphy last edited by

        I think seoelevated has your answer - if you can overlay the text on the image as actual text that should tick all the boxes for you 🙂

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          • seoelevated
            seoelevated Subscriber last edited by

            The common solution is to overlay the text on the image, rather than producing the image with text in it. The overlay text can then be given an H1 element.

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            • Calligraphy
              Calligraphy @R0bin_L0rd last edited by

              Thank you for your response.

              Yes, the text is part of the image so Google can't read it. However, I'm wondering about repeating myself for the users as well. Is there a solution where it isn't repetitive for both users and Google?

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              • R0bin_L0rd
                R0bin_L0rd last edited by

                Good question! So you're saying that the text is part of the image? Not written on the page? In that case definitely put it on the text of the page - Google can't read text out of images so you don't need to worry about repeating yourself and it's showing Google important content for the first time!

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