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Can having multiple H1 tags on a webpage be detrimental to its rankings?

Has anyone use the City Grid software/ network to boost your local online presence? If so, what are your thoughts on it ? Did you get good enough results that would justify the investments? All comments and opinions are welcome. We are trying to weigh our options...

I am completely perplexed here guys.  I have accomplished all of the the things that the On- Page Analysis tool says that we need to perform as far as( Keyword laden page titles and webpages) yet the report comes back and gives the webpage a C and says that we still need to correct these issues. Can anyone explain this?

The keywords are: " real estate augusta ga" " property management augusta ga"

the address is: www.aubenrealty.com

Thanks in advance,

C

If you are leaving comments on these blogs with your web address, I would think that the answer would be " Possible but not in the way that you think"

Most bloggers have code in their html that tell the Google spiders to " not follow"  the links in their comments section. They do this in a attempt to keep spammers from stuffing their comment section with links when they are not actually bringing value to the discussion. So, you will not get boost in the SERPs due to link juice.

But do not lose hope. If you are an active part in the blogging community and you give good advice and bring relevant comments. People will in inadvertently check you out and your website. Sometimes they will even approach you to solve a solution. I was told some good advice here one time " Never join an online community for the link juice. Join it because you enjoy it and you want to be apart of the community."

If you are guest blogging, this may be a different case...

Hope this was helpful,

C

Thanks, Paul

You are correct. Since making this post I was able to speak to our developer and she said that we are not using a popular CMS. It's just something simple that she custom built for us as an attempt to cut down cost for us. The website was built before my time at this company and the original thought was that the website and content would not grow to the point of us needing a CMS because CMS can be expensive. This may not be the case going forward. Our developer said that she will build us a database and figure out a way to give us access to this database so that we will have the ability to tinker with page titles. We feel that this is the best solution.

Here is an email that she sent us:

_....The problem with that is what I explained earlier, your site uses the same header and footer for every page. That's why the title appears on every page the same way._Basically think of it like this....

we have a header and footer, each as one file. So the home page would look like this...

header

homepage content

footer

We do this, so if you make a change to the header or footer, it affects every single page without actually having to update 20 different pages...... So all of your meta tags including the title tag are all located in the header file.

Having said that, to change those out on a page by page basis, it can be done absolutely, but to keep using the header and footer files, it will need to be database driven and changed out based on what page is displaying. I would need to give you guys a place to be able to go in and edit the title tag on each individual page. So it can be done, but as you can see it isn't as easy as just changing some text, some things would need to be programmed to make it happen.....

Please weigh in on this guys. The last thing that I want is for this developer to pull the wool over our eyes.

No, it's worth a lot Paul.

Thank you for clearing that point up for me!!!

Ahhh,

So this might be kind of a dumb question but does the page that your link shows up on affect the strength of the Referral. For example ( We just got a "do follow" link on a National Association website with major link juice. Our link is not on the homepage but it is on a sub-domain. If it were on the homepage would it have made a bigger affect ?)

Hey, Guys

How long does it take for Google to recognize your link-building efforts with authority websites and affect the SERPS?

Yes, it definitely will cause problems because I just got the same problem resolved. My companies website had the same dilemma. One UA # did not have any analytic and one did. Our Google Analytics were not showing up. The SEOmoz team was able to get me straight.

Just email SEOmoz in the help hub: http://www.seomoz.org/help

and one of their peeps will get you straight. Try setting up your account first though.

Have you tried getting some of SEO applications that WordPress offers? They have free packages that allow you to enter meta data such as the title tag to your webpage. What kind of website do you have? I work in real estate and I found out that some of our duplicate content came from our web developer not optimizing the web submission pages for visitors interested in properties.

If you are leaving comments on these blogs with your web address, I would think that the answer would be " Possible but not in the way that you think"

Most bloggers have code in their html that tell the Google spiders to " not follow"  the links in their comments section. They do this in a attempt to keep spammers from stuffing their comment section with links when they are not actually bringing value to the discussion. So, you will not get boost in the SERPs due to link juice.

But do not lose hope. If you are an active part in the blogging community and you give good advice and bring relevant comments. People will in inadvertently check you out and your website. Sometimes they will even approach you to solve a solution. I was told some good advice here one time " Never join an online community for the link juice. Join it because you enjoy it and you want to be apart of the community."

If you are guest blogging, this may be a different case...

Hope this was helpful,

C

Yea, Sean

I agree that you should move it under the main website. I am not an expert at this but I can definitely see how it can potentially dilute your juice from the main website. It almost seems like it should be on the resources page. I see how you guys have " Showcase| Case Studies| Hosting| ..." I would stick it between " Case Studies" and " Hosting."

What was the rationale behind putting it on a different domain?

Hmmm, interesting.

Well they do have Snellville GA and fence company a ton in bold in the page content.  This is an anomaly to me. My first thought was that this keyword must not be very competitive but once I pulled keyword analysis, this was not the case. Is it possibly that they ran a successful adwords campaign in the past and this catapulted them into a high  SERP ranking and now they are just riding the waves of past successes. My explanations are completely exhausted.

I am curious about what someone more knowledge than myself has to say about it.